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The reason to set SHELL_PATH and PERL_PATH was that 'make' failed to execute /bin/sh some-script It turns out that different MinGW/MSYS environments have different levels of support for this construct, so use the default and let the user override the settings in config.mak if the defaults don't work.
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This is a port of GIT to Windows using MinGW.
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The goal of this port is to have the tools runnable from the Windows
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command line, not from MinGW's rxvt+bash environment.
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(Note: This file was written after-the-fact and may contain errors.
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If you are trying this, please make notes and update it.)
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INSTALLATION
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------------
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In order to compile this code you need:
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- MSYS, e.g. MSYS-1.0.11-2004.04.30-1.exe
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- MinGW, e.g. MinGW-5.0.2.exe
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- mingwruntime, e.g. mingw-runtime-3.9.tar.gz
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- compilers and tools:
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binutils-2.15.91-20040904-1.tar.gz
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gcc-core-3.4.2-20040916-1.tar.gz
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gcc-g++-3.4.2-20040916-1.tar.gz
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gdb-6.3-2.exe
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mingw32-make-3.80.0-3.tar.gz
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unzip-5.51-1-bin.zip (this is not from MinGW, iirc)
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msysDTK-1.0.1.exe (contains ssh, perl)
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bash-3.1-MSYS-1.0.11-snapshot.tar.bz2
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- additional libraries:
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zlib-1.2.3-mingwPORT-1.tar
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w32api-3.6.tar.gz
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tcltk-8.4.1-1.exe (for gitk, git-gui)
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libiconv-1.9.2-1-{lib,bin,lib}.zip (for git-am,
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from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libiconv.htm)
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I am using these settings in config.mak to have pointers to the right tools:
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TCL_PATH=tclsh84
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TCLTK_PATH=wish84
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SHELL_PATH=D:/MSYS/1.0/bin/sh
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PERL_PATH=D:/MSYS/1.0/bin/perl
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STATUS
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This code base will not compile on a POSIX system, although any help
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to introduce the necessary #ifdefs is welcome. As such the status quo
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is in no way intended to be merged upstream.
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This works:
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- All the plumbings.
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- Many porcelains, in particular, checkout, add, rm, commit, diff,
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branch, merge, rebase, log, show, bisect, grep...
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- pull, clone, fetch, push via native git protocal as well as ssh.
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- Local pull, clone, fetch, push.
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- gitk, if invoked as "wish84 <prefix>\bin\gitk". Ditto for git-gui.
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This does not work:
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- daemon, svn, *import, cvs*
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- and certainly a lot more that I never have found a need to look at.
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Caveats (aka bugs):
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- Internally, the ported tools must do their own command line quoting
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when other plumbings are executed. This sort of quoting is currently
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implemented *very* simplistic: It just watches out for whitespace
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and double quote `"' characters. This may become a problem if you have
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exotic characters in your file names.
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- It seems that MSYS's default bash, 2.05b, has a bug that breaks git-am
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(and, hence, git-rebase). If you see this error:
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Patch is empty. Was is split wrong?
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you need bash 3.1: Just unpack bash-3.1*.tar.bz2 and copy its bash.exe
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over $MSYS/bin/sh.exe.
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