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Re: What's the status of MinGW port.

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PHPeter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Date
Sep 8, 2008, 18:30 UTC
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On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Tait wrote:
> My understanding is that MinGW is a POSIX emulation layer; the underlying
> code is still using POSIX functions like fork and exec that aren't native
> to Windows.

Your understanding is flawed. You're probably thinking of MSYS or CYGWIN. MinGW is a native Win32 port of gcc.

> So I'll ask again, is there any particular reason why a _native_ Windows
> Git hasn't been attempted (or was abandoned, or whatever)?
MinGW-git is a native Windows application.

Some of the utilities bundled with "msysgit" (eg. bash, rxvt, perl, and therefore git-svn) use the MSYS POSIX emulation layer, but the git core is native.

Peter Harris
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  1. Kevin YuSep 8, 2008
  2. Johannes SixtSep 8, 2008
  3. TaitSep 8, 2008
  4. Andreas EricssonSep 8, 2008
  5. TaitSep 8, 2008
  6. Peter HarrisSep 8, 2008

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