Re: git build on msys fails (and fix)

From: dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 1, 2008, 12:02 UTC
Message-ID: <e3f230850812010402n69cced19s3f36a5bcb84977c6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4933D10E.6020706@viscovery.net>

Hello,

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:

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> dhruva schrieb:
>>  I got the mob branch and I fail to see the Makefile. I decided to
>> just add the pthread related files and push so that someone could
>> build, I get authentication failures. I had tried to push perl
>> sometime back when I had a gcc compiler perl (before strawberry perl)
>> and had similar problems. I am fairly certain I am doing something
>> wrong but cannot figure it out!
>
> msysgit.git is *not* a git.git clone; it is the MSYS/MinGW environment to
> build git.git on Windows.
>
> You should apply the steps 1. to 4. that you mentioned in an earlier mail
> and push the result; but you cannot apply 5. because that is a change to
> git itself.

I request someone to just pull the archive I have placed just this time, I will try again for other patches. I will create a clone in a separate folder for msysgit and keep it ready. Unknowingly, I just cleaned up the remote and lost all the changes I had pulled earlier :(

-dhruva

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