Hi, On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Frankly, I'd rather stay away from such hackeries. For now, we can ship > > bash, perl and Tcl/Tk with Git, as well as git-gui, can't we? After all, > > Windows users are used to bloatware. Then, we just hide the command line > > from them! > > I agree. > > I'm happy to make changes in git-gui to help users who are trying > to use Git without Cygwin, and are on Windows. Patches would be > even more welcome of course. ;-) > > Most of git-gui tries to stay away from shell scripts, partly for > this reason, and partly because its Porcelain and shouldn't depend > on the stock Porcelain-ish that comes with Git. Oh, and shell > scripts on Cygwin aren't speed-demons. :-) I was talking about MinGW. Shipping MSYS' bash, perl and tcltk would not be impossible. And configuring git-gui to be started with MSYS' wish would solve the common problems calling bash scripts. Ciao, Dscho - 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