From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:17:15 GMT Subject: Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <46B2D547.6050406@trolltech.com> On 8/3/07, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote: > > I finally broke down, waiting for the sourceforge project to get > > granted. In the meantime, I registered a project at > > > > http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ > > > > (WARNING: temporary only!) > > > > Would you believe that Google code has a restriction to 20MB per > > file, and 100MB in total, and you cannot remove files? The same > > Google that gives you 1TB mail space and counting? Yes, it is > > ludicrous. > > > > Anyway, you can get a complete Development environment in 3 files > > (because one would be too large), and... oh well, just read what is > > written on the website if you're really interested. > > Great effort Johannes! > The package work perfectly on XP. > I'm trying to get it to work under Wine, but it (Wine) is not playing > nice with me at the moment. (The whole system barfs of "Access Denied" > and other things. Grrr) Even if it installs ok under Wine, git may not work properly because a bug in dup2() not duplicating to 0-2 and some others that I think only affect tests. So get XP if you can or prepare to fix Wine along the way. -- Duy