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Re: gitbox status (for those who want to hack on it)

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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 11, 2007, 23:37 UTC
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On 8/11/07, Govind Salinas <govindsalinas@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I'm interested in the various git on Windows projects.  I can't seem
> to find any information on gitbox on the web though.  Can you tell me
> a bit about it?  What makes it different from the other cygwin git or
> mingw?
>From user point of view, it's basically mingw git without msys

requirement. You still need msys to be able to compile git though. From developer point of view, it's mingw git with a couple of unix tools ripped from busybox.

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Duy
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  2. Johannes SchindelinAug 5, 2007
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  4. Johannes SchindelinAug 6, 2007
  5. Govind SalinasAug 11, 2007
  6. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 11, 2007

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