On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Ævar, > > On Wed, 31 Aug 2016, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > >> I haven't used it myself (or any Windows thing) but people say good >> things about http://strawberryperl.com > > Ah yes. This comes up frequently. Many a Git for Windows user pointed me > into that direction. > > The biggest problem with Strawberry Perl is that it is virtually > impossible to build the Subversion-Perl bindings using the Git for Windows > SDK when using Strawberry Perl. > > Which pretty much precludes it from being used in Git for Windows. > > And then there are the path issues... Git's Perl scripts are pretty > certain that they live in a POSIX-y environment. Which MSYS2 Perl > provides. Strawberry Perl not. This might be me missing the point, and I'm really just trying to be helpful here and make "prove" work for you because it's awesome, but as far as just you running this for development purposes does any of this SVN stuff matter? I.e. you can build Git itself not with Strawberry, but just use Strawberry to get a working copy of "prove".