From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: MinGW port - initial work uploaded Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:15:28 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <200701192148.20206.johannes.sixt@telecom.at> <46d6db660701220506t20214d3bi4d0e1e93abd01aad@mail.gmail.com> <200701222127.09601.johannes.sixt@telecom.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Johannes Sixt , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 23 15:15:42 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H9MR3-0007Oh-Ji for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:15:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932920AbXAWOPb (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:15:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932899AbXAWOPb (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:15:31 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:46791 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932920AbXAWOPa (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:15:30 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 23 Jan 2007 14:15:29 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO dumbo2) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp042) with SMTP; 23 Jan 2007 15:15:29 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-X-Sender: gene099@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > On 1/23/07, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On the third hand, I fully expect git on Windows to be used only by GUI > > wieners who cannot handle the command line, let alone a pager! ("WTF! How > > do I go back to that dollar thingie? You know, where I type git-blabla?") > > If I have to use git on Windows (very likely now that this port seems > to work), I'd much prefer command line interface. cmd.exe may be not > good enough so I think we should include bash in git-win32 package. > Many git commands are still bash scripts and new commands are often > coded as bash scripts. So we need bash in Windows anyway unless > Windows Git users accept a limited git version. (no-perl git is > acceptable to me). Actually, you cannot work _at all_ with git when you don't have a proper shell. Ciao, Dscho