Re: Possibility of a MinGW version?

Rob McDonald wrote:

1.0 is out the door, with support (to some degree or another) for Cygwin,
BSD, MacOS X, Solaris, and who knows what else, good job all.

What possibility is there of getting git (& assorted tools) to run natively
on Windows (sacrilege I know) using MinGW?  What truly Unixy-only things
does the code do?  Unfortunately, Windows is a reality for many of us.

I'd like to begin experimenting using git to track all of my data files
acting as a synchronization mechanism.  Have all your files up-to-date
everywhere, revision tracking, & redundancy too...  Dedicated Linux
repository at home, dual boot laptop on the road, Windows machine at work,
etc...

Thoughts?  Suggestions?

The worst trouble you're likely to run into is all the hardcoded paths. 
They are everywhere and ofcourse use the / for path entity separation.

The fact that there are 39 bash'ish shell-scripts does little to help a 
native port, and although they can be fairly easily replaced by "real" 
programs it still means quite a bit of work with little real value for 
the unix-version, so I'm guessing you'll have to write those up for 
yourself.

Is there some reason you can't install Cygwin, which effectively 
overcomes both those problems?

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