RE: AFS + git + Windows

Thanks Jeffrey

I picked this list on purpose because I was trying to bypass the =
Unix-centric answers since that seems to be half of my problem. (My =
background is VMS & NT, not Unix) If I manage to do anything useful, =
I'll still post to this list since the readers are likely Windows =
people.

Re: the Jabber room. What's the name and location? Do I need an account =
of some sort to participate?

Re: native Git for Windows. Do you know if anyone is interested in that? =
Working on it?

Mickey.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Altman [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 4:52 PM
> To: Mickey Lane
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-win32-devel] AFS + git + Windows
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> Mickey:
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> There are no git experts here.  I suggest you join the Jabber room.
> Or ask your questions on openafs-devel.
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> git and Windows do not mix well.   msysGit is better than cygwin git.
> cygwin git will corrupt your repository in time due to confusion over
> EOL usage.
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> However, msysGit and Cygwin (which is required for the build) cannot
> be mixed in the same environment.  MingW and Cygwin are incompatible.
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> There is no native Git for Windows and things are just going to be =
ugly
> for a while.
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> Jeffrey Altman
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> Mickey Lane wrote:
> >

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