Re: Windows support

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 26, 2007, 13:55 UTC
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0707260655v1dbbacfbta23e670713683963@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46d6db660707260632q16f927a2r64f6b4588dd3cb48@mail.gmail.com>

On 7/26/07, Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 7/26/07, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/26/07, Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > it seems you're not very far off. I believe you intend to replace in git-commit
> > > "#!c:/msys/bin/sh" with something like "#!c:/gitbox/bin/gitbox ash", right ?
> >
> > No. I tweaked try_shell_exec() to use gitbox shell if the interpreter is "sh".
> >
>
> interesting. have you tried inserting busybox vi inside git-box ?

Not yet. That would be fun but I rather focus on ash in the moment. You could set EDITOR to notepad or something else.

> I can commit using "git commit -a -m ok", but then I get this kind of
> error message (and ash dies, I go back to xp/cmd prompt)
>
> mv: cannot rename '.git/next-index4540': File exists

Baah.. something goes wrong again.

> C:/gitbox/bin/git-commit: exit: line 658: Illegal number: -1
>
> nice piece of work. it could really be tiny once fixed.

Um.. that "Illegal number" might be an ash bug. Intended to fix it but then forgot :(

>
> I suggest to replace most git-* by git-box/ash shell wrappers,
> calling the git.exe binary directly.

Cool. Will do.

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> --
> Christian
> --
> http://detaolb.sourceforge.net/, a linux distribution for Qemu
>

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Duy