From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 80676 invoked by alias); 20 Mar 2018 23:50:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 80667 invoked by uid 89); 20 Mar 2018 23:50:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*M:yandex, H*F:D*yandex.ru, channels, HX-Priority:Normal X-HELO: forward103o.mail.yandex.net Received: from forward103o.mail.yandex.net (HELO forward103o.mail.yandex.net) (37.140.190.177) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Mar 2018 23:50:07 +0000 Received: from mxback6g.mail.yandex.net (mxback6g.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:1472:2741:0:8b7:167]) by forward103o.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id ED43E5886F94; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 02:50:03 +0300 (MSK) Received: from smtp4o.mail.yandex.net (smtp4o.mail.yandex.net [2a02:6b8:0:1a2d::28]) by mxback6g.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTP id 8bblZp653k-o3B4Rb8T; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 02:50:03 +0300 Received: by smtp4o.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id tUaULKYqYF-o3ru9GZt; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 02:50:03 +0300 (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) Authentication-Results: smtp4o.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.ru Received: from [192.168.1.10] (HELO daemon2.darkdragon.lan) by daemon2 (Office Mail Server 0.8.12 build 08053101) with SMTP; Tue, 20 Mar 2018 23:42:35 -0000 Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:25:00 -0000 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <324994357.20180321024235@yandex.ru> To: "KARL BOTTS" , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: GitForWindows vs. Cygwin In-Reply-To: <587wcTwzy5968Set.1521586344@web02.cms.usa.net> References: <587wcTwzy5968Set.1521586344@web02.cms.usa.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-03/txt/msg00311.txt.bz2 Greetings, KARL BOTTS! > Can anyone enlighten me about the relationship of "Git for Windows" to > Cygwin? They are not related. > I have no intention to use GFW myself: I use Cygwin git. But now other people > around here are discovering GitHub, MSysGit and or GitForWindows. Pretty > soon, we are going to wind up with multiple git flavors installed on the same > host, which worries me. Erm, but how? > But now I hear of this GitForWindows thing. Which seems to have replaced > MSysGit, with a GUI thrown in. But is it _still_ a stale fork of Cygwin, or a > fork at all? Is it descended from MSysGit? I have been googling all over, > but not finding good answers. You'd have better chance for the answers at their support channels. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Wednesday, March 21, 2018 02:40:11 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple