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

From: Torgil Svensson <torgil.svensson@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 4, 2007, 00:16 UTC
Message-ID: <e7bda7770708031716i61f80d89o8970b3236a961613@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708032231320.14781@racer.site>

Hi,

This is great news for win(-stuck)-users. I've tried "msysGit-0.2.exe", a few glitches

1. Unpacking in a folder that have space in it's path gave various
errors of this type (here, msysGit is unpacked on the desktop
C:\Documents and settings\.... ) : make[1]: C:/Documents: Command not
found

2. rxvt-terminal had some freezes (echoed input but programs didn't
output anything and didn't seem to respond to ctrl-c). Had it once
during "make" and once during "ls".  I't might be related to me
resizing the terminal during command execution (=I didn't see it
otherwise).

3. "gitk --all" said "Error reading commits: fatal: write failure on
stdout: Invalid argument" on start - my other msys installation
didn't. (I didn't do anything to make git dirty - i'm on master and
gitk shows no uncommited changes)
$ git --version
git version mingw.v1.5.2.4.883.g3822-dirty

4. Mouse-wheel didn't work to scroll views in gitk

=> it works with minor installation effort! I've done both MSYS and Cygwin installs - I think this will lower the git barrier on Win significantly. Thanks & good work all involved!

Best Regards,

//Torgil

On 8/3/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote:
>
> > > * replace rxvt by that stupid cmd window
> > > Sneaky.
> >
> > This was a result of my customization that I have forgot to remove.
> > In general cmd window is more familiar/convenient for Windows users.
> > IMHO, our goal here should be "as native (Windows) as possible". Cygwin fills
> > "as close to *nix as possible" niche.
> > But in any case it's such a minor detail that I don't really care much.
>
> Actually, I finally saw the light and implemented your idea of the
> repo.or.cz repository, containing a full copy of the darn beast.
>
> And there, differences like this one are much easier to spot.
>
> Besides, Marius convinced me already to include two versions.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
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