# MinGW port updated, now self-hosting again

2 messages from 2007-03-13 to 2007-03-13. Participants: Johannes Sixt.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/7227

## Johannes Sixt, 2007-03-13 09:59

Subject: MinGW port updated, now self-hosting again
Message-ID: <45F675E8.2E4B58B4@eudaptics.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/45F675E8.2E4B58B4%40eudaptics.com

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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.

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

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## Johannes Sixt, 2007-03-13 10:14

Subject: Re: MinGW port updated, now self-hosting again
Message-ID: <45F67979.498A321F@eudaptics.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/45F67979.498A321F%40eudaptics.com
In-Reply-To: <45F675E8.2E4B58B4@eudaptics.com>

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Johannes Sixt wrote:
> 
> 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

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