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

Johannes Schindelin said the following on 03.08.2007 14:37:

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote:

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The changes that I've made:
* removed .git in /git directory to save space
* installed gdb
* applied my Vista fix
* made self-extracting .rar archive

* replace rxvt by that stupid cmd window
Sneaky.
Can you defend the choice?
FWIW here are my arguments for rxvt:

	- it behaves the same on all Windows versions
	- it has a scroll back (which you have to activate on cmd first)
	- it is resizable
	- it has sane copy&paste behaviour (which you have to activate on 
		cmd first, and then still have to hit the Return key after 
		having selected some text)

Normally, people would probably like to stay in their current 
environment/window. Let's say you're doing something in a cmd windows, 
then you want to go and compile git. If you run msys.bat, it will kill 
your current window, and show a rxvt window instead. That's kinda not 
nice really.

If you enable the QuickEdit in the 'CMD' window, you mark with mouse, 
the right-click to copy, then right-click again to paste. No need to 
move your hand and hit Enter/Return. (Many people don't know about the 
right-click to copy, but it's a much better work-flow)

You can do all the changes (like changing the scrollback size and edit 
mode) once, then store it, never to change it again.

-- 
.marius