From: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:42:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Windows release
Message-ID: <f488382f0902030842x6e7466ffm4668abde23e67bea@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70977F81A@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com>

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:21 AM, John Dlugosz <JDlugosz@tradestation.com> wrote:
> I want to update my git installation to the latest stable version, and
> I'm running Windows.  In your download page
> <http://git-scm.com/download> the link next to Cygwin is
> <http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe> which would seem to be the installer
> for Cygwin itself, not for the Cygwin version of the git executables.
>
> Am I missing something here?
>
> --John

Cygwin doesn't have a binary package system (i.e. rpm, deb, etc), so
you either have to run the Cygwin installer to get the latest one they
support or compile it yourself via Cygwin.

- Steven