From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:49:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] qgit4 aka qgit ported to Windows
Message-ID: <e5bfff550701110449j4feceb4fi42809bbbecde9ad6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <45A62D40.5040707@op5.se>

On 1/11/07, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> Marco Costalba wrote:
> > On 1/11/07, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 1/10/07, Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > 6) Start qgit.exe
> >> > 7) Have fun
> >>
> >> Great!
> >>
> >> How much does qgit4 depend on using commandline git? IOWs, how far
> >> from not needing cygwin+git, and shipping a git+qgit compiled against
> >> the MinGW that QT4 has?
> >>
> >
> > qgit4 does not depends on  commandline git environment at all. You can
> > start qgit4 also without a git installation, also without a cygwin
> > installation either. Of course it's not useful in that cases.
> >
>
> Huh? Does qgit4 have all the git plumbing built in?
>

No. It's absolutely not useful without git (but compiles and runs
anyway). What I mean is that beign a native windows application it
does not need cygwin. The latter is needed only by git.