Re: Windows support

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 26, 2007, 18:18 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707261917150.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0707260911y4091b525kc6b89beb82ec7dc7@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

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> On 7/26/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > Earlier, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> 
> > > - MinGW busybox (or gitbox as I call it now) utilizes compat/mingw.c 
> > > and other stuff like run-command.c... Making it separate (as source 
> > > code) duplicates code for nothing.
> > 
> > It is not duplication.  It is forking.  Which is a good thing.
> 
> I still don't see why duplicating compat/*, git-compat-util.h,
> run-command.[ch]... and keeping fixing bugs in two places is a good
> thing.

Actually, it would pretty easy to set up a tracking script with Git, I guess. But I can look into that once you finished your gitbox. Thanks for doing it BTW...

Ciao, Dscho