Re: Are the patches used to build git on cygwin available in a git repo somewhere?
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Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
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- Mar 31, 2010, 11:58 UTC
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On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
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> According to Jon Seymour on 3/31/2010 1:55 AM: >> What I was looking for was a git repo that contains a branch with the >> patches that the cygwin folks mutate the official git release with. >> Such a repo would be quite useful because people could, in theory, use >> these to produce their own cygwin git builds at arbitrary commits >> instead of having to wait for cygwin to catch up. >> >> Admittedly, it is not a big deal to build such a branch using the >> patch from the cygwin package source, but I was just wondering whether >> there was a well-known repo that contained the patches already. > > Nope - the patchset that I apply when building the cygwin port is so small > that so far I have just maintained it manually, rather than publishing a > git repo. But if you want me to make it more public, I can certainly look > into doing that. And yes, now that 1.7.x is out for some time now, I > should probably advance the cygwin port beyond 1.6.6.1. >
As you say, it's probably not worth the effort, but if you ever do decide to set such a thing up, do let me know.
jon.
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