From: Peter Harris Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:30:52 GMT Subject: Re: What's the status of MinGW port. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080908181848.GI27478@ece.pdx.edu> 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