From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:08:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT
Message-ID: <uwstohyqf.fsf@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <4713C81F.A75FEFC2@dessent.net>

> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:05:51 -0700
> From: Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
> CC: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
>  	git@vger.kernel.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, ae@op5.se,
>  	tsuna@lrde.epita.fr
> 
> I don't know of
> any ports of bash that aren't MSYS or Cygwin based.  However I do think
> there's a native port of zsh out there by the GnuWin32 project, which
> when renamed as just "/bin/sh" might be suitable, but only if these
> scripts don't use bash-isms.  I have not tried this zsh myself and
> speed/compatibility wise I'm not sure it's up to snuff.

I think you mean Amol's zsh (there's no GnuWin32 port of zsh AFAIK).
Amol's zsh is what I use, but it has a few annoying bugs, even after I
fixed some, that prevent it from running a typical configure script,
for example.