Hi, On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Benoit SIGOURE wrote: > > Context: GNU make seems to be willing to switch from CVS to ... something > > else. > > > > On Oct 14, 2007, at 6:57 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > > > > > [...] the big thing no one else seems to have addressed much in > > > other discussions I've seen is portability. It LOOKS like there are > > > native ports of GIT to MINGW, but I have no idea how complete and usable > > > they are. If someone who has a Windows system could look into that it > > > would be a big help. > > > > I think the best thing to do is to ask directly on the Git ML. > > > > Someone already pointed out that he'd like to use Git on Windows but > > doesn't want to install either Cygwin or MSYS. Is this possible, or > > will it be possible in the near future? > > It is sort of possible. Without cygwin he'll be in the black for the few > features that are still implemented as shell-scripts, but perhaps he/she > will then be inclined to help us migrate those scripts to C builtins. Umm. There are quite a few shell scripts still _necessary_ to run git: git-commit, git-fetch and git-merge being the most prominent ones. The first two are in the process of being rewritten _right_ _now_, but no official git release has them yet. And I have to disagree strongly with the "black": In msysGit (which brings its own minimal version of MSys), it is very smooth. > > Is it possible to use one of the various GUIs (git-gui, gitk, qgit) > > on Windows without requiring a POSIXish shell etc.? > > > > qgit is possible to use natively, if one installs the qgit4 libraries > for windows, but it's more of a viewer than an action gui. git-gui and > gitk are usable if you have the windows TCL port. I haven't tried it, > but there are installers available, so testing it out (with all > dependencies) shouldn't take too long. FWIW msysGit comes with Tcl. You can run git gui and gitk without any hassles. > > When will the librarification of Git be finished? > > When someone gets around to doing it ;-) There has been a GSoC project, and it has a nice small API which can be called from Python, for example. Funnily enough, the first user is qgit as far as I know, which is written in C++... > > (if Git is available as a library, and if this library works on > > Windows, it will greatly help truly native Windows ports). > > Yup. I believe the primary reason for libification is to easier support > both porting and fully-fledged gui's. Why? I do not see any reason why libification helps the user experience on Windows. 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
