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

On 8/6/07, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

NOTE: earlier installers included msys-rxvt.bat.  I now _know_ for a fact
that a lot of things are strangely broken under Rxvt.  For example,
creating an ssh key, of all things.

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2. rxvt-terminal had some freezes

Those "freezes" were due to the fact that Rxvt incorrectly updates stderr
in a blocking way, or not at all (don't know which).  There are more
things that do not work in Rxvt, and only after trying the same in cmd
(which I do not like for various reasons) I found out that rxvt.exe is at
fault.

I would be glad if somebody managed to compile rxvt herself and fix all
those bugs (see http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ for a short list of the
most pressing issues I found).  As it is, I have enough work to do with
the rest of msysGit, and for the moment, I can at least work in cmd.  Even
ssh push works.

It looks like rxvt is evil. I'll try to get other terminals working
like that one Marius suggested. Although msys/bash makes up for most
of the annoyances I dislike the cmd-terminal to the point that it's a
real issue for me [deep settled in my neuron configuration].

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3. "gitk --all" said "Error reading commits: fatal: write failure on
stdout: Invalid argument"

I have to wonder how you called it... From msys.bat, cd'ing into a valid
repository, I had no issues whatsoever.

I called it from rxvt. I tried it now under cmd and it's all good. Did
you try rxvt in this case?


I notice that with your net installer (great job btw!), I get the
msysgit.git reop under /.git and the mingw.git repo under /git/.git
but there is no /git in /.gitignore. Is this overlap intended?  Isn't
this a case for submodules?

//Torgil