Re: Anyone running GIT on native Windows

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 7, 2007, 17:45 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705071936340.4167@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <00c701c790c6$512804d0$0200a8c0@AMD2500>

Hi,

On Mon, 7 May 2007, Aaron Gray wrote:

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> > > 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.
> 
> I had presumed you do not have to really look at the code if the 
> tanslator is sound.

IMHO no automatic shell->C converter can be sound. Besides, you are missing that we are dealing with the opposite of POSIX here. After all, your target platform is Windows, right? That makes a sensible sh->C converter all the more difficult.

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> > If you had bothered to check, you'd know that there are ongoing 
> > efforts to do the ports properly.
> 
> This is good. So the shell code is being migrated to C ?
> 
> Could you give me a link or refernce please ?

You can see a lot in Git's history itself:

	git log --grep="[Mmake].*builtin" --no-merges builtin.h

The Google Summer of Code projects' home page is

	http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SoC2007Projects

The ongoing progress for this particular project can be seen here:

	http://repo.or.cz/w/git/builtin-gsoc.git

Hth, Dscho