Re: MinGW port usable

On 1/30/07, Shawn O. Pearce [off-list ref] wrote:

Try creating a desktop icon (Repository->Create Desktop Icon) and
start git-gui from the resulting .bat file.  It *should* come up
right on MinGW, but I'm only guessing here.

ok noted for tomorrow's tests :)

The other one that I'm curious about is if fetch/push/merge work.
merge requires git-merge right now, which is a shell script.
fetch is the same, but push is pure C so it should work.  But I
don't think the Tcl environment will make it into the child, which
means things like SSH_AUTH_SOCK don't get used.

I'll see what I can do.

But I really should just install the git-mingw port on one of
my windows systems and play with it.  If its faster than Cygwin
then it's worthwhile.

one of the hassles with this mingw thingy is that you need to
install it, and whatever you compile gets inside it, like libs,
includes, etc... Whenever I come out with a stable product
that can be sfx'ed inside a 7zip executable, I do it, to avoid
installing/uninstalling or even modifying it.

it works like a charm with msys/mingw, and I guess git/gitk/git-gui
will all work in this way too. Once this port is ready for mass
testing, I guess we can either show how to compile it (actually
some patches are still needed, like no symlinks exist on
msys/mingw, so we should replace those links by bash scripts),
or provide a 7z sfx binary that can help <<pushing>> git
to the mass. On this last possibility I can help out...

your call, guys. :)

The blame feature is in git-gui (went in last night).  It requires
the --incremental patches from Linus&Junio, which are now in git.git
master.  It also needs a big display, as the interface is horrid.  :)

I'll find a big one then.

-- 
Christian