# Native Windows implementation of GIT ?

3 messages from 2009-06-12 to 2009-06-13. Participants: Aaron Gray, Reece Dunn.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/19793

## Aaron Gray, 2009-06-12 22:07

Subject: Native Windows implementation of GIT ?
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Is there going to be a native Windows implementation of GIT ?

i.e. not MSYS or Cygwin based.

Many thanks in advance,

Aaron

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## Reece Dunn, 2009-06-12 22:12

Subject: Re: Native Windows implementation of GIT ?
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2009/6/12 Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@googlemail.com>:
> Is there going to be a native Windows implementation of GIT ?
>
> i.e. not MSYS or Cygwin based.
>
> Many thanks in advance,

Cygwin is an adapter layer that maps posix calls to the Windows Win32
API, so is not a native implementation.

MSYS uses the MinGW (gcc) compiler uses the native Windows Win32 API,
so the MSYS version *is* native.

Unless by native you mean using Visual Studio?

- Reece

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## Reece Dunn, 2009-06-13 16:12

Subject: Fwd: Native Windows implementation of GIT ?
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Forwarding to the git mailing list (Aaron: could you keep the mailing
list in the CC, thanks).

- Reece

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com>
Date: 2009/6/13
Subject: Re: Native Windows implementation of GIT ?
To: Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@googlemail.com>


2009/6/13 Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@googlemail.com>:
>>Unless by native you mean using Visual Studio?
>
> Yes built on Visual Studio or other native Windows compiler.

mingw (using gcc) is a native Windows compiler (it goes directly
through the Win32 API, except for the portability wrappers in git
itself).

> A GIT that runs natively on Windows, using Windows paths, etc

The MSYS/mingw port of git does run natively on Windows. I haven't
used it recently (I have switched to using Linux), so I don't know
about how well it copes with Windows paths.

If you have any issues with msysgit (or git on Windows in general) in
regard to functionality (e.g. ".gitignore does not work with Windows
paths"), I would suggest raising these issues. Problems that are not
reported cannot be fixed.

- Reece

> Aaron
>
> 2009/6/12 Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com>
>>
>> 2009/6/12 Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@googlemail.com>:
>> > Is there going to be a native Windows implementation of GIT ?
>> >
>> > i.e. not MSYS or Cygwin based.
>> >
>> > Many thanks in advance,
>>
>> Cygwin is an adapter layer that maps posix calls to the Windows Win32
>> API, so is not a native implementation.
>>
>> MSYS uses the MinGW (gcc) compiler uses the native Windows Win32 API,
>> so the MSYS version *is* native.
>>
>> Unless by native you mean using Visual Studio?
>>
>> - Reece

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