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Re: git cygwin package?

Subject: Re: git cygwin package?

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2 messages between Nov 3, 2006 and Dec 15, 2006.

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Tim O Callaghan· Dec 15, 2006, 10:22 UTC · lore

> Hi,
> Has anyone created a binary package for git on cygwin?

I started working on one a while ago, but it started to take up too much time. In the end i had to shelve it for a while. I was looking at it recently actually.

There are were few issues with trying to compile with a target path directory of / (root), as cygwin uses /bin /lib etc for all of its binaries. There were some problems with the import/export SVN tools as well IIRC.

Its not just git that needs to be added to cygwin, Asciidoc and a few other tools (i have a list somewhere) would also need to be packaged for cygwin too, because the package system re-builds their binaries from source for distribution.

Also whoever builds them would also have to make sure they have the time maintain them or they get dropped.

Tim.

Marco Roeland· Nov 3, 2006, 14:50 UTC · re: Tim O Callaghan · lore

On Friday November 3rd 2006 at 12:43 Tim O Callaghan wrote:

> Its not just git that needs to be added to cygwin, Asciidoc and a few other tools (i have a list
> somewhere) would also need to be packaged for cygwin too, because the package system re-builds
> their binaries from source for distribution.

Debian has split git into different packages to avoid unnessary dependencies if you don't need them. Might be a good idea for Cygwin.

A 'git-core' package for Cygwin would already be of great use. The documentation can then for example be fetched from the respective documentation branches in the git repository.