# [mingw port] Problem starting git subcommands

2 messages from 2007-07-08 to 2007-07-09. Participants: Henning Rogge, Johannes Sixt.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/8929

## Henning Rogge, 2007-07-08 18:26

Subject: [mingw port] Problem starting git subcommands
Message-ID: <87eacd830707081126x69b2edb3o9fd89733ff2258f4@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87eacd830707081126x69b2edb3o9fd89733ff2258f4%40mail.gmail.com

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I have experimented with GIT on my linux system successfully but one
of my projects has to be done on Windows (neither VMware Workstation
nor Wine can help at the moment) so I got a copy of the mingw port of
GIT (http://lilypond.org/git/binaries/mingw/git-1.5.2.1-1.mingw.exe).

Installation succeeded without a single error but when I tried to run
a few GIT commands I noticed a "bug":

the git.exe command does not recognize any scripted subcommand
(git-clone in my case) !
> C:\Programme\Git>git clone
> git: 'clone' is not a git-command

Do I need another software package ? I tried to install the Mingw
package itself, but it did not help at all.

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## Johannes Sixt, 2007-07-09 08:49

Subject: Re: [mingw port] Problem starting git subcommands
Message-ID: <4691F68B.832047D1@eudaptics.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4691F68B.832047D1%40eudaptics.com
In-Reply-To: <87eacd830707081126x69b2edb3o9fd89733ff2258f4@mail.gmail.com>

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Henning Rogge wrote:
> 
> I have experimented with GIT on my linux system successfully but one
> of my projects has to be done on Windows (neither VMware Workstation
> nor Wine can help at the moment) so I got a copy of the mingw port of
> GIT (http://lilypond.org/git/binaries/mingw/git-1.5.2.1-1.mingw.exe).
> 
> Installation succeeded without a single error but when I tried to run
> a few GIT commands I noticed a "bug":
> 
> the git.exe command does not recognize any scripted subcommand
> (git-clone in my case) !
> > C:\Programme\Git>git clone
> > git: 'clone' is not a git-command
> 
> Do I need another software package ? I tried to install the Mingw
> package itself, but it did not help at all.

Yes, you need a shell and some Posix tools. Install MSYS, e.g.

   MSYS-1.0.11-2004.04.30-1.exe

You will also want a ssh and perl, e.g. from

   msysDTK-1.0.1.exe

and MinGW's tcl/tk from

   tcltk-8.4.1-1.exe

Also, git-am seems to require bash 3.1, e.g. from

   bash-3.1-MSYS-1.0.11-snapshot.tar.bz2

-- Hannes

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