Re: MinGW port - initial work uploaded

> On 1/23/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Maybe we have to go the other way round, just as POSIX git does: instead
> > of spawning the pager, we should _beginthread() the actual work, and
> > execl() the pager.
> 
> actually, one other issue is the spawning of vim when doing commits.
> I usually end up in using -m "my commit message" because of these
> 2 errors (basically terminal not recognized, I tried many different
> options to no avail)
> 
> $ git commit -a
> Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal
> Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal
> 
> > 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?")
> 
> maybe I'm stuck with windows at work, but I still use vim inside mingw.