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 6, 2007, 14:30 UTC
Message-ID: <e7bda7770708060730t7c0713c4m6abe42d929d847b0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708060054020.14781@racer.site>

On 8/6/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> NOTE: earlier installers included msys-rxvt.bat.  I now _know_ for a fact
> that a lot of things are strangely broken under Rxvt.  For example,
> creating an ssh key, of all things.

> > > > 2. rxvt-terminal had some freezes

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> Those "freezes" were due to the fact that Rxvt incorrectly updates stderr
> in a blocking way, or not at all (don't know which).  There are more
> things that do not work in Rxvt, and only after trying the same in cmd
> (which I do not like for various reasons) I found out that rxvt.exe is at
> fault.
>
> I would be glad if somebody managed to compile rxvt herself and fix all
> those bugs (see http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ for a short list of the
> most pressing issues I found).  As it is, I have enough work to do with
> the rest of msysGit, and for the moment, I can at least work in cmd.  Even
> ssh push works.
>

It looks like rxvt is evil. I'll try to get other terminals working like that one Marius suggested. Although msys/bash makes up for most of the annoyances I dislike the cmd-terminal to the point that it's a real issue for me [deep settled in my neuron configuration].

> > > > 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 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?

//Torgil