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MinGW port updated, now self-hosting again

Subject: MinGW port updated, now self-hosting again

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2 messages between Mar 13, 2007 and Mar 13, 2007.

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Johannes Sixt· Mar 13, 2007, 09:59 UTC · lore

I've updated the MinGW port at

pull/clone: git://repo.or.cz/git/mingw.git gitweb: http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mingw.git

Thanks to the recent additions of fake symlink support, this version is now self-hosting on Windows again.

Unfortunately, my time to work on this port is currently very limited. For this reason, this version is already a week behind Junio's master. This time I also did not make sure that the test-suite passes.

I also see that Shawn has updated the run_command family of functions to make them more useful for MinGW. But I fear I won't find time to integrate this work during this or next week.

-- Hannes

Johannes Sixt· Mar 13, 2007, 10:14 UTC · re: Johannes Sixt · lore

Re: MinGW port updated, now self-hosting again

Johannes Sixt wrote:

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> I've updated the MinGW port at
> 
> pull/clone: git://repo.or.cz/git/mingw.git
> gitweb:     http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mingw.git
> 
> Thanks to the recent additions of fake symlink support, this version is
> now self-hosting on Windows again.

I forgot to mention: To make the repository self-hosting, you must set

  git config core.symlinks false

but since you can do this only after a repository exists, a 'git clone' will still fail during the checkout phase. To fix up the failure, just enter the repository, set core.symlinks false, and follow-up with a 'git reset --hard'.

-- Hannes