Windows release

I want to update my git installation to the latest stable version, and
I'm running Windows.  In your download page
<http://git-scm.com/download> the link next to Cygwin is
<http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe> which would seem to be the installer
for Cygwin itself, not for the Cygwin version of the git executables.

Am I missing something here?

--John

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:21 AM, John Dlugosz [off-list ref] wrote:

I want to update my git installation to the latest stable version, and
I'm running Windows.  In your download page
<http://git-scm.com/download> the link next to Cygwin is
<http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe> which would seem to be the installer
for Cygwin itself, not for the Cygwin version of the git executables.

Am I missing something here?

--John

Cygwin doesn't have a binary package system (i.e. rpm, deb, etc), so
you either have to run the Cygwin installer to get the latest one they
support or compile it yourself via Cygwin.

- Steven

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Steven Noonan [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I want to update my git installation to the latest stable version, and
I'm running Windows.  In your download page
<http://git-scm.com/download> the link next to Cygwin is
<http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe> which would seem to be the installer
for Cygwin itself, not for the Cygwin version of the git executables.

Am I missing something here?

--John

Cygwin doesn't have a binary package system (i.e. rpm, deb, etc), so
you either have to run the Cygwin installer to get the latest one they
support or compile it yourself via Cygwin.

- Steven

There is also msysGit if you don't want to deal with Cygwin.
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/

-Geoffrey Lee