On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Tait wrote: > My understanding is that MinGW is a POSIX emulation layer; the underlying > code is still using POSIX functions like fork and exec that aren't native > to Windows. Your understanding is flawed. You're probably thinking of MSYS or CYGWIN. MinGW is a native Win32 port of gcc. > So I'll ask again, is there any particular reason why a _native_ Windows > Git hasn't been attempted (or was abandoned, or whatever)? MinGW-git is a native Windows application. Some of the utilities bundled with "msysgit" (eg. bash, rxvt, perl, and therefore git-svn) use the MSYS POSIX emulation layer, but the git core is native. Peter Harris -- 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
