Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote: >> 1) msys.bat still kills the previous window >> (start <cmd> opens a new CMD window, and exit kills the current one) > Done. Works nicely now. >> 2) If $HOME is set to the normal home directory of the user (which I >> have, but I doubt it's common) >> then you'll have problems with spaces in path, so the >> make install > > I agree, it is much saner to install it to /bin. That should make > creating an installer for Git (the compiled one) easier, too. Perfect! All neatly packaged in c:\MSysGit\bin now :-) >> 3) When "Setting up git" the second time, it feels like the whole thing >> is hanging; have let it run for ~5min now without anything happening. >> Not sure what's going on here. It looks like git.exe was ran with any >> options, but that should not consume 100% CPU.. Hmm > > Yep. I did not test the initial phase, and there is a serious bug in > setup_git_directory_gently() in origin/devel. I fixed that. Yup, work now. >> 4) When using the install, I get >> marius@STORM /git >> $ git init >> warning: templates not found C:/msysGit/share/git-core/templates/ >> Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ >> >> Probably due to the "Setting up git" step not completing. > > That is expected. Hooks are activated by chmod'ing them to executable. > AFAIK this concept is thoroughly broken by Windows. So I do not even > attempt to install the templates; otherwise all hooks would be blindly > activated (and you do not want that, trust me). Actually, the MinGW build uses NOEXECTEMPL to set a '.noexec' postfix to the template files, so they are not executed, even with Windows brokeness. ;-) So, you can safely copy them into msysgit\shared\git-core\templates. > P.S.: I also uploaded the script I created to make the installer. It > assumes that you installed 7zip to C:\Program Files\7-Zip but is > trivial to adapt to your setup. Thnx! I guess I should become a member of the project then, so I can upload packages when needed :-) (I already have a code.google.com account 'mstormo', so you can add that user) Later! -- .marius
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