Re: Are the patches used to build git on cygwin available in a git repo somewhere?

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On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> According to Jon Seymour on 3/31/2010 1:55 AM:
>> What I was looking for was a git repo that contains a branch with the
>> patches that the cygwin folks mutate the official git release with.
>> Such a repo would be quite useful because people could, in theory, use
>> these to produce their own cygwin git builds at arbitrary commits
>> instead of having to wait for cygwin to catch up.
>>
>> Admittedly, it is not a big deal to build such a branch using the
>> patch from the cygwin package source, but I was just wondering whether
>> there was a well-known repo that contained the patches already.
>
> Nope - the patchset that I apply when building the cygwin port is so small
> that so far I have just maintained it manually, rather than publishing a
> git repo.  But if you want me to make it more public, I can certainly look
> into doing that.  And yes, now that 1.7.x is out for some time now, I
> should probably advance the cygwin port beyond 1.6.6.1.
>

As you say, it's probably not worth the effort, but if you ever do
decide to set such a thing up, do let me know.

jon.

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