Re: MinGW binary installer available

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 7, 2007, 15:05 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702071559340.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702071552470.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Hi,

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> 
> > I don't actually have a windows copy, so it's basically untested.
> > However, I did succeed in running rev-list in wine.
> 
> I played a little with it. IMHO it makes no sense to use it without a 
> bash, and without less.

Side note: Since "ln <src> <dest>" in MinGW is really a copy, not a hard link, this gets rather big (44M here).

Which makes me think if we should just disallow the "git-<builtin>" on Windows, since sooner or later, Git will no longer be used from the command line on Windows.

And another thing hit me there: Are you sure that all works well if you change the install path from "C:\Program Files\Git" to something else? Without explicitely setting GIT_EXEC_PATH?

Ciao, Dscho