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Re: Anyone running GIT on native Windows

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
May 7, 2007, 14:24 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0705071624210.4167@racer.site>
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<002801c790ae$d86a1a90$0200a8c0@AMD2500>
Hi,
On Mon, 7 May 2007, Aaron Gray wrote:
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> > > On 5/7/07, Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com> wrote:
> > > > Aaron Gray wrote:
> > > > > What I want is to be able to work in Windows CMD and envoke .sh 
> > > > > scripts by association (unfortunately you have to add the .sh on 
> > > > > the command name though).
> > > >
> > > > I run the mingw port exclusively from CMD without a .sh 
> > > > association. So exclusively that I don't even know whether any 
> > > > other way of using the tools even works. Of course, you have to 
> > > > get used to
> > > 
> > > Is it public available?
> > 
> > gitweb: http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mingw.git
> > clone:  git://repo.or.cz/git/mingw.git
> > 
> > I only have either time to hack on mingw.git or a Windows 
> > installation, but not both at the same time. Therefore, the port is 
> > now a bit falling back (it's still at 1.5.1). I hope to be able to 
> > change this in a few weeks.
> 
> Great I will check this out when I get some time.
> 
> An .sh to c converter would be the best solution. I will be looking into 
> how hard this would be to do.
NACK.

A stupid .sh to c converter will almost certainly result in slow and hard-to-debug code.

If you had bothered to check, you'd know that there are ongoing efforts to do the ports properly.

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 9 of 23 in “Anyone running GIT on native Windows”
  1. Aaron GrayMay 6, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 6, 2007
  3. Aaron GrayMay 6, 2007
  4. Johannes SixtMay 7, 2007
  5. Marco CostalbaMay 7, 2007
  6. Johannes SixtMay 7, 2007
  7. A.S. BradburyMay 7, 2007
  8. Aaron GrayMay 7, 2007
  9. Johannes SchindelinMay 7, 2007
  10. Thomas GlanzmannMay 7, 2007
  11. Aaron GrayMay 7, 2007
  12. Johannes SchindelinMay 7, 2007
  13. Asger Ottar AlstrupMay 8, 2007
  14. Han-Wen NienhuysMay 9, 2007
  15. Johannes SixtMay 9, 2007
  16. Han-Wen NienhuysMay 11, 2007
  17. Johannes SixtMay 11, 2007
  18. Han-Wen NienhuysMay 11, 2007
  19. Johannes SixtMay 11, 2007
  20. Han-Wen NienhuysMay 11, 2007
  21. Aaron GrayMay 12, 2007
  22. Jan HudecMay 9, 2007
  23. Han-Wen NienhuysMay 9, 2007

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