Hi, On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > I make MinGW busybox part of git for some reasons: > > - Making a full MinGW busybox would take lots of time. I don't need > busybox for Windows. What I need is a shell and enough POSIX utilities > to run git shell scripts without any dependencies. Windows users > (including myself when I have to use Windows) hate dependencies. I think that if you succeed to compile ash on MinGW, the rest is easy. > - I don't want MinGW busybox to be used outside of git (if it is > installed separated from git), there are cygwin and msys already. I > don't want to compete them. And I don't like conflicts (not sure > though) because you have multiple UNIX emulations on the same system. But you'd be my hero. Installing Cygwin is often overkill if all I need is just a tiny shell with just enough POSIX tools to run my scripts. Installing MinGW is painful. Not because of MinGW, but because there is no single installer for all I want. You need to install MinGW, MSYS, MSYS DTK, iconv, bash (because the default is to old), etc. etc. With busybox it would be busybox.exe. > - Making ash part of git has an advantage that you could tune the > shell to fit git. Earlier you had to replace find/sort with > /usr/bin/find and /usr/bin/sort in git scripts to avoid Windows > alternatives. I don't like that. If you have control over the shell, > you could make it ignore whatever program out there and use your own > ones. This one is not a strong point though. I doubt that this is useful. We do want to support the other systems as well, so we have to kinda stick with the available workarounds. > - MinGW busybox (or gitbox as I call it now) utilizes compat/mingw.c > and other stuff like run-command.c... Making it separate (as source > code) duplicates code for nothing. It is not duplication. It is forking. Which is a good thing. > - If you meant separating from git.exe binary, not from source code, > then it's ok. Yes. Although I see your point in making it a builtin "git-ash" that can be called without an extra fork(), using beginthread instead. 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
