From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 63531 invoked by alias); 30 Apr 2015 12:44:24 -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 63502 invoked by uid 89); 30 Apr 2015 12:44:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_JMF_BR autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: BAY004-OMC1S3.hotmail.com Received: from bay004-omc1s3.hotmail.com (HELO BAY004-OMC1S3.hotmail.com) (65.54.190.14) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 30 Apr 2015 12:44:17 +0000 Received: from BAY169-DS5 ([65.54.190.59]) by BAY004-OMC1S3.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.22751); Thu, 30 Apr 2015 05:44:16 -0700 X-TMN: [/sMNpmoXoqlQFNi0Nj3ZlZ91ey8NaH7a] Message-ID: From: "Tony Kelman" To: References: <20150429200616.GL3657@calimero.vinschen.de> <55421179.1050305@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55421179.1050305@gmail.com> Subject: Re: From Microsoft: Windows 10 Console and Cygwin Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 12:44:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-04/txt/msg00654.txt.bz2 > Public service reminder: "msysgit" is not a MSYS-git. The git program that > they > ship is, in fact, a full-fledged port of git to W32 (i.e. mingw-git), > which is > achieved by applying lots of patches (~300KB last time i checked) on top > of > git. It is, however, bundled with MSYS1, as parts of git are written in > shell > language and thus need a POSIX shell. Also, last time i checked the MSYS1 > version they shipped itself had a few patches applied on top of it[1]. > > [1] https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/tree/msys/src/rt/patches And for those who might not follow these things too closely, the upcoming 2.x releases of git-for-windows will be based off of MSYS2 (see https://github.com/git-for-windows), so a much more modern Cygwin dll under the hood of the bash/coreutils pieces. But yes, large parts of that git distribution, aside from the shell, are compiled by MinGW compilers (MinGW-w64 in the under-development git 2.x releases) rather than Cygwin compilers. -Tony -- 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