Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git)

On 8/3/07, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

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On 8/3/07, Marius Storm-Olsen [off-list ref] wrote:

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I finally broke down, waiting for the sourceforge project to get
granted. In the meantime, I registered a project at

http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/

(WARNING: temporary only!)

Would you believe that Google code has a restriction to 20MB per
file, and 100MB in total, and you cannot remove files?  The same
Google that gives you 1TB mail space and counting?  Yes, it is
ludicrous.

Anyway, you can get a complete Development environment in 3 files
(because one would be too large), and... oh well, just read what is
written on the website if you're really interested.

Great effort Johannes!
The package work perfectly on XP.
I'm trying to get it to work under Wine, but it (Wine) is not playing
nice with me at the moment. (The whole system barfs of "Access Denied"
and other things. Grrr)

Even if it installs ok under Wine, git may not work properly because a
bug in dup2() not duplicating to 0-2 and some others that I think only
affect tests. So get XP if you can or prepare to fix Wine along the
way.

I do not have XP.  So I very much would appreciate any work done on Wine.

As it happens, I have a hanging rxvt now (still investigating what causes
it; ever since wine-0.9.30-466-gb0e9d7e it stopped working for me).

I attached what I did with Wine until now. You probably only need
patch 2 but if you are going to test gitbox, you'll need patch 1 as
well. It is based on wine-0.9.41-313-gd0b21ab. With these patches, I
can run git tests under Wine.
Ah, and if you want to run tests under Wine, beware that setting TZ in
scripts has no effect. You have to set TZ before running wine.

Ciao,
Dscho

-- 
Duy