# What's the status of MinGW port. 6 messages from 2008-09-08 to 2008-09-08. Participants: Kevin Yu, Johannes Sixt, Tait, Andreas Ericsson, Peter Harris. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/15418 ## Kevin Yu, 2008-09-08 04:34 Subject: What's the status of MinGW port. Message-ID: <42b562540809072134xed61f0as6f1201a641ec973c@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/42b562540809072134xed61f0as6f1201a641ec973c%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <42b562540809072128o62854572y1eb8d2e69e7193f1@mail.gmail.com> ``` Hi, GIT is a great tool, but I'm running Windows XP. It seems like msysgit hasn't been updated for a long time, neither has the mingw.git branch. Is there any plan to create a native version of GIT on MS Windows? Anyway GIT is great. :). Best wishes. Kevin ``` ## Johannes Sixt, 2008-09-08 07:08 Subject: Re: What's the status of MinGW port. Message-ID: <48C4CF58.4020906@viscovery.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/48C4CF58.4020906%40viscovery.net In-Reply-To: <42b562540809072134xed61f0as6f1201a641ec973c@mail.gmail.com> ``` Kevin Yu schrieb: > GIT is a great tool, but I'm running Windows XP. > It seems like msysgit hasn't been updated for a long time, > neither has the mingw.git branch. > Is there any plan to create a native version of GIT on MS Windows? There are no plans anymore to create such a thing. It is already there: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ If the lack of activity is worrysome to you, you could help create a release tarball for 1.6.0(.x). -- Hannes ``` ## Tait, 2008-09-08 11:03 Subject: Re: What's the status of MinGW port. Message-ID: <20080908110333.GH27478@ece.pdx.edu> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080908110333.GH27478%40ece.pdx.edu In-Reply-To: <48C4CF58.4020906@viscovery.net> ``` > > Is there any plan to create a native version of GIT on MS Windows? > > There are no plans anymore to create such a thing. Out of curiosity, any particular reason why not? ``` ## Andreas Ericsson, 2008-09-08 11:24 Subject: Re: What's the status of MinGW port. Message-ID: <48C50B76.7070506@op5.se> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/48C50B76.7070506%40op5.se In-Reply-To: <20080908110333.GH27478@ece.pdx.edu> ``` Tait wrote: >>> Is there any plan to create a native version of GIT on MS Windows? >> There are no plans anymore to create such a thing. > > Out of curiosity, any particular reason why not? > He mentioned it in the very next sentence: It already exists. I guess this is beyond your attention span, but I'll say it anyway; Please read the entire email before responding. You'll save yourself a lot of embarrassment that way. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 ``` ## Tait, 2008-09-08 18:18 Subject: Re: What's the status of MinGW port. Message-ID: <20080908181848.GI27478@ece.pdx.edu> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080908181848.GI27478%40ece.pdx.edu In-Reply-To: <48C50B76.7070506@op5.se> ``` >>>> Is there any plan to create a native version of GIT on MS Windows? >>>There are no plans anymore to create such a thing. >> >>Out of curiosity, any particular reason why not? > > He mentioned it in the very next sentence: It already exists. > > I guess this is beyond your attention span... The personal attack was unnecessary, and no, I'm not inattentive, thank you. My understanding is that MinGW is a POSIX emulation layer; the underlying code is still using POSIX functions like fork and exec that aren't native to Windows. When I said "native" I meant "not POSIX" -- i.e. using the Windows API directly instead of through some kind of munging layer. So I'll ask again, is there any particular reason why a _native_ Windows Git hasn't been attempted (or was abandoned, or whatever)? ``` ## Peter Harris, 2008-09-08 18:30 Subject: Re: What's the status of MinGW port. Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/eaa105840809081130t64e45fc5kc54c79b7d427f55e%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20080908181848.GI27478@ece.pdx.edu> ``` On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Tait wrote: > My understanding is that MinGW is a POSIX emulation layer; the underlying > code is still using POSIX functions like fork and exec that aren't native > to Windows. Your understanding is flawed. You're probably thinking of MSYS or CYGWIN. MinGW is a native Win32 port of gcc. > So I'll ask again, is there any particular reason why a _native_ Windows > Git hasn't been attempted (or was abandoned, or whatever)? MinGW-git is a native Windows application. Some of the utilities bundled with "msysgit" (eg. bash, rxvt, perl, and therefore git-svn) use the MSYS POSIX emulation layer, but the git core is native. Peter Harris ```