Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git)

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>
> > On 8/3/07, Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com> 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.
>
> I do not have XP.  So I very much would appreciate any work done on Wine.
>
> As it happens, I have a hanging rxvt now (still investigating what causes
> it; ever since wine-0.9.30-466-gb0e9d7e it stopped working for me).

>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
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