From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Cc: Torgil Svensson <torgil.svensson@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:30:30 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708101121240.21857@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2383328F-300E-459C-A299-90242DA230F7@zib.de>
Hi,
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> On Aug 10, 2007, at 8:07 AM, Torgil Svensson wrote:
>
> > On 8/9/07, Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Will all this run on Windows XP 64 bit and Windows Vista 64 bit?
> >
> > How fast can you type?
>
> I don't see your point. The question is if git runs flawlessly
> on 64 bit systems, which we use for development. I have no experience
> with mingw. Maybe there are some issues with 64 bit Windows, maybe
> not. But its a reasonable question?
It would be, if
- more people had 64-bit platforms to run on, and
- more people had Windows 64-bit.
Both cost money, so I suggest just trying it for yourself if you are one
of the few lucky ones being actually _able_ to test.
And no, I will not buy a Windows 64-bit just to test it for you.
> > Why does it have to be the _official_ repo? Git have submodule
> > support, so you could do a repo called
> > "my_excellent_git_environment_for_windows.git" and have the official
> > repo as submodule (msysgit is done this way).
>
> The official repo would indicate a real commitment to me that
> Windows support if officially maintained.
I cannot speak for others, of course, but this is a freeloader mentality I
do not want to support.
If you want first class Windows support, you'll have to pay for that,
methinks. And seeing all those less-than-even-lousy SCMs getting major
financial contributions to support their mediocrity, I do not see a reason
to get small amounts from private people, but rather substantial
money-flow from big companies.
Git is an excellent tool. If people want it badly enough, they should do
something for it.
> I agree that there may be more tools group around core git. But
> core git itself should be the master from the official repo.
> This seems to be a reasonable goal to me. At least that is what
> we do. The head must compile on all supported platforms
> out-of-the-box.
Guess why mingw.git is called a "fork"? It is _not good enough_ yet to be
included. Not necessarily function-wise, but definitely code-wise. We
have quite strict coding rules, being an Open Source project where
everybody can see your mess, should there be one.
It has _never_ been the plan to maintain mingw.git independently for
eternity. But the progress has been slow, and the _only_ reason that
there was any progress _at all_ was that Hannes stepped up, and did some
actual work instead of talking.
So yes, mingw.git's target destination is git.git.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-10 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-07 9:02 git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD Sebastian Schuberth
2007-08-07 11:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-07 12:13 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2007-08-07 13:18 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2007-08-07 14:36 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-07 14:58 ` Brian Downing
2007-08-07 15:27 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2007-08-07 17:11 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-07 17:42 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-07 19:41 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-07 21:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-07 22:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-08 3:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-07 22:46 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-07 22:49 ` [PATCH] cygwin: added fopen "b" and open O_BINARY to support cygwin's textmode Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-07 22:49 ` [PATCH] tests: added d2u to have unix style testfiles even in textmode Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 3:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-08 5:00 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-07 23:20 ` git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 4:25 ` Brian Downing
2007-08-08 5:46 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-07 22:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-08 7:55 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2007-08-08 13:50 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-08 15:51 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 16:41 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-08 17:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-08 19:37 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 20:13 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 20:36 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 23:07 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-09 4:59 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-09 6:01 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-08-09 6:38 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-09 6:47 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-08-09 8:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-09 9:00 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-08-09 10:33 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 21:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-09 6:20 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-10 6:07 ` Torgil Svensson
2007-08-10 7:19 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-10 10:30 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-08-10 11:14 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-10 22:31 ` Torgil Svensson
2007-08-11 0:43 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-13 10:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-15 0:04 ` Torgil Svensson
2007-08-15 5:22 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-15 5:30 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-15 5:43 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-15 6:59 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <86k5rx474o.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-08-15 7:38 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-15 12:42 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-15 12:48 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-15 13:06 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-16 0:27 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-16 6:04 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-16 11:55 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-07 15:29 ` Mark Levedahl
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