Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 8, 2007, 17:20 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708081810130.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <30e4a070708080941j49b3d58cxc39bbe65f2fee9d5@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Mark Levedahl wrote:

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> On 8/8/07, Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:
> >
> > The bottom line for me is, git does not yet support Windows in a
> > usable way for the organizations that I need to convince.
> >
> >         Steffen
> >
> 
> Have you considered jumping in to help on the msys git port Johannes
> Schindelin is working? He has very generously offered to do
> essentially everything except find bugs, the latter because he does
> not actually use Windows so can't, and is clearly putting a great deal
> of effort into this. A stable and complete Windows port may be much
> closer than you think.

To be fair, we are already a team of five working on it. The 3rd generation of the net installer works as flawlessly as the first, but msysgit.git is a superproject now, containing the complete build environment you need, and has git/mingw/4msysgit.git as a submodule (yes, that is a fork of a fork; they work now on repo.or.cz).

Please find it on

	http://msysgit.googlecode.com/

(It's a meager 1.4 MB, so the whole rest is git-cloned natively!) It already passes all tests, is able to start gitk and git-gui, and more is to come!

And no, I did not agree to do _everything_. I agreed to do things _when I get something in return_.

For example, we have a functional script sitting in msysgit.git which builds a complete WinGit installer (WinGit being the code name for "Git on MSys without the whole build environment").

It is incomplete in only a few issues:

	- it does not install anything in the start menu

	- it does not install any short cut on the Desktop

	- it does not install anything in the Quick Launch bar

	- it does not include a nice WelcomeToGit.html, to be launched 
	  after a successful install

	- it does not contain a nice way to start git-gui (you have to 
	  start it by hand from the command line inside bash)

	- etc.

So go for it, everybody, or alternatively do not even bother to whine.

Ciao, Dscho

P.S.: I'll be not really available for a few days, starting from tomorrow, so do use the mailing list to keep in touch with others working on msysgit or 4msysgit, and do use the mob branch (you can bug the project members listed on the homepage to cherry-pick, sign off and push if need be).