Re: [Mingw-users] MinGW build of git

[LRN <lr...@gm...>]

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On 17.09.2013 07:00, Renato Silva wrote:
> On 2013/9/16 LRN wrote:
>> On 16.09.2013 21:06, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:39:41 +0400 LRN wrote:
>>>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>>> I'd love to have a native git on my disk, as it would free me
>>>>> from the need to maintain 2 separate and carefully segregated
>>>>> MSYS installations.
>>>> Bad idea. Git is better when it uses a POSIX compatibility
>>>> layer. Cygwin, MSYS1, MSYS2 - anything is better than native.
>>> 
>>> Can you elaborate why?  Given the fact that the git executables are
>>> in fact MinGW (i.e. "native") programs, what does the compatibility
>>> layer add that is important not to lose?
>> 1) Nativeness is achieved by throwing heaps of patches on top of 
>> official git releases. And msysgit now has to maintain them. 2)
>> Because of the msys->mingw transition at runtime, there are 
>> corner-cases where path mangling does the wrong thing. Msysgit devs 
>> solve this by using a special, patched msys-1.dll where mangling
>> works a bit differently.
>> 
>> Compiling git for MSYS1 is something a single developer is able to do
>> in one day, and you only need to patch git to make it compatible with
>> the decade-old MSYS1 development headers (for MSYS2 it's even simpler
>> - no need to patch git, just fudge the buildsystem a bit). And no
>> mangling problems.
>> 
>> 
> If it's so better and easier, then why didn't they just compile git for
> MSYS instead of as a native MinGW program?

Ask them.

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