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From: | Steffen Prohaska |
Subject: | Re: Switching from CVS to GIT |
Date: | Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:23:37 +0200 |
On Oct 15, 2007, at 10:20 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, make- address@hiddenFrom: Steffen Prohaska <address@hidden> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:56:40 +0200While we are at that: can you (or someone else) point me toinstructions on how to build the MinGW port of GIT? I found a tarball of the MinGW-ported GIT (v1.5.3, I think), but what I don't seem to beable to find is some kind of HOWTO: what tools I need to have installed, how to configure them (if there are any special issuesthere), what command(s) to type, etc. Is there anything like that outthere, or can someone post such instructions?If you want to have a full working development environment, such thatyou can start contributing to msysgit right away, and have no firewallissues, go to http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ and install GitMe, currently http://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/GitMe-0.4.2.exe If you only care about an end-user setup, which contains only the git binaries on your system, but no tools to compile them, stay tuned for one or two days. We'll release an updated installer soon.Sorry I wasn't clear: I want neither. I don't think I will have enough free time to become an active contributor to GIT any time soon. OTOH, since binaries are not available (and I'd prefer a tarball as opposed to an installer, to be more in control of what's being installed and where),
Ok, so I uploaded the most recent preview of the installer to http://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/WinGit-1.5.3-preview20071010.exe Note, we're about to release an updated version soon. Personally, I don't plan to put work in providing tar balls. A working installer has higher priority for me.
I asked about the development tools (compiler and Binutils, obviously, but what else?) required to build the source tarball with MinGW tools. Do I understand correctly that building GIT currently requires MSYS? That'd be unfortunate, at least for me.
msysgit's GitMe contains all tools from MSYS required to build git. It also clones the git source and compiles it. It doesn't install anything outside the folder that you chose upon installation. I strongly believe it is the easiest way to compile git from source. Steffen
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