On Tuesday 2007 January 23 15:20, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > MinGW and cygwin differ in one very important point: cygwin needs an extra > dll, MinGW does not. > > However, the development environment is still console-based, with a bash > so you can run configure and simple bash scripts. It is definitely more > catering to Unix types than Windows types. > > So yes, there is a bash, and there is a less, and there is perl. Those are just tools for MinGW though aren't they? They aren't needed to run the final executable object? MinGW just spits out a native windows .exe - i.e. plain windows. There is no reason to suppose that joe-random-developer will have bash, less and perl, even if they do have git. Which was kind of the point I was making - there is no pager to rely on in Windows, so why not just drop it. Okay, so MinGW comes with some nice UNIXy tools, but MinGW is the compiler, not the environment. Am I still misunderstanding? I'm looking out for the time when C:\SomePath> git commit -a will work (I know - it's a long way off yet). Not for me; I don't care about Windows in the slightest; but some of my colleagues use it, and I'd like to spread the git-religion as far as I can. > > That sounds better than I remember. You'll have talked me into > > migrating to Windows soon :-) > > I don't understand. The command "less" is the default pager of git, so you > are prone to have used it already. Of course I have; I was trying (failing) to be amusing. :-) Whenever I'm forced to use Windows, it's lack of the most basic of command line tools drives me insane, so you saying that less is easily available with good pipe support would ease my insanity slightly if were ever to go back to the dark place. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - 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