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From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: MinGW binary installer available
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:14:06 +0100
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To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
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Johannes Schindelin escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>>
>>> I don't actually have a windows copy, so it's basically untested.
>>> However, I did succeed in running rev-list in wine.
>> I played a little with it. IMHO it makes no sense to use it without a 
>> bash, and without less.
> 
> Side note: Since "ln <src> <dest>" in MinGW is really a copy, not a hard 
> link, this gets rather big (44M here).
> 
> Which makes me think if we should just disallow the "git-<builtin>" on 
> Windows, since sooner or later, Git will no longer be used from the 
> command line on Windows.
> 
> And another thing hit me there: Are you sure that all works well if you 
> change the install path from "C:\Program Files\Git" to something else?
> Without explicitely setting GIT_EXEC_PATH?

I have no idea. The installer just plonks the files into C:/P F/Git/
and adds that to $INSTALLDIR/usr/bin/ to $PATH


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