Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 6, 2007, 14:37 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708061535390.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <e7bda7770708060730t7c0713c4m6abe42d929d847b0@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Torgil Svensson wrote:

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> On 8/6/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > > > > 3. "gitk --all" said "Error reading commits: fatal: write 
> > > > > failure on stdout: Invalid argument"
> 
> > I have to wonder how you called it... From msys.bat, cd'ing into a 
> > valid repository, I had no issues whatsoever.
> 
> I called it from rxvt. I tried it now under cmd and it's all good. Did 
> you try rxvt in this case?

I had no issues like that in rxvt. But "git push" via ssh was a no go. even with the "ssh://.." syntax. Since it works in cmd, I'll stay with cmd for now, but I'd like to see a working rxvt.

> I notice that with your net installer (great job btw!), I get the 
> msysgit.git reop under /.git and the mingw.git repo under /git/.git but 
> there is no /git in /.gitignore. Is this overlap intended?  Isn't this a 
> case for submodules?

Exactly. My bad. Dmitry pointed out that I should not have done that, and I'm in the middle of setting it up as a submodule.

Ciao, Dscho