# Re: git cygwin package?

2 messages from 2006-11-03 to 2006-12-15. Participants: Tim O Callaghan, Marco Roeland.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/43341

## Marco Roeland, 2006-11-03 14:50

Subject: Re: git cygwin package?
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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.
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## Tim O Callaghan, 2006-12-15 10:22

Subject: Re: git cygwin package?
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> 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.


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