From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:15:28 GMT
Subject: Re: MinGW port - initial work uploaded
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701231514080.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0701230536p536f3326w36f2b272c869c5cf@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> On 1/23/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > On the third hand, I fully expect git on Windows to be used only by GUI
> > wieners who cannot handle the command line, let alone a pager! ("WTF! How
> > do I go back to that dollar thingie? You know, where I type git-blabla?")
> 
> If I have to use git on Windows (very likely now that this port seems
> to work), I'd much prefer command line interface. cmd.exe may be not
> good enough so I think we should include bash in git-win32 package.
> Many git commands are still bash scripts and new commands are often
> coded as bash scripts. So we need bash in Windows anyway unless
> Windows Git users accept a limited git version. (no-perl git is
> acceptable to me).

Actually, you cannot work _at all_ with git when you don't have a proper 
shell.

Ciao,
Dscho