Jon Seymour wrote: > 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. To clarify, I didn’t realize the Cygwin folks needed a patch at all. Oh well, theory and practice. I just fetched the packaging. http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/cygwin/release/git/git-1.6.6.1-1-src.tar.bz2 gitk - work around stderr redirection on Cygwin The description of this patch suggests it is meant to work around the old Tcl/Tk version. In that case, maybe stock gitk should learn a workaround. I don’t think it is supposed to require more recent Tcl/Tk than 8.4. Unfortunately, I cannot find a relevant changelog entry. Maybe this is a Windows-specific bug? http://wiki.tcl.tk/2620 describes a similar problem. gitk - convert gitk-path to Windows if on Cygwin This patch seems reasonable, and it only affects Cygwin. I think it looks reasonable for inclusion in stock gitk, though others might disagree. Documentation/Makefile Adds --unsafe to the asciidoc command line. Why? Makefile Stops disabling so many features, since Cygwin has come a long way. This looks worth applying upstream. The conservative thing to do would be to test $(uname -r), but since it is easy to bring a Cygwin installation up to date and hard to figure out the appropriate versions, it might make sense to make this change unconditionally. A worrisome one is NO_MMAP. Was that problem ever understood? Maybe v1.6.3-rc0~133 (MinGW: implement mmap, 2009-03-13) contains some clues (just a hope). The message for v1.5.0-rc1~182 (Set NO_MMAP for Cygwin by default, 2006-12-27) indicates that it’s filesystem-specific, Makefile: all:: perl/perl.mak Should be unnecessary. The scripts should pull it in already. Makefile: setting INSTALLDIRS=vendor in the perl/perl.mak target Should be unnecessary. Make passes on variable settings from the command line to submakes already. git-gui/Makefile: Change to Cygwin-specific part. Probably applicable upstream. Thoughts? Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html