Re: [Mingw-users] Few packages available for mingw-get

[Earnie <ea...@us...>]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 3/12/2011 1:52 AM, LRN wrote:
>> On 12.03.2011 8:56, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>> (fyi: the 'msysgit'
>>> version of git is actually a *win32* port, bundled with an msys environment)
> 
>> I know. It was a shocking thing to discover.
>> Though, if msysgit (which is really a mingw-git) works as intended
>> without using msys - why not use it? 
> 
> I suspect -- but do not know for certain -- that an msys port will be a
> better approach, mainly because upstream git is, by and large, a
> unix-oriented tool.  AFAIK, msysgit's win32 patches have not been
> accepted upstream -- but we DO know that the cygwin port is well
> supported.  

I suspect an MSYS build of git client tools would be the better solution
as well.  From what I've seen the windows port of git is treated as a
parallel maintenance fork.

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