From: Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [mingw port] Problem starting git subcommands
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:49:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4691F68B.832047D1@eudaptics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87eacd830707081126x69b2edb3o9fd89733ff2258f4@mail.gmail.com
Henning Rogge wrote:
>
> I have experimented with GIT on my linux system successfully but one
> of my projects has to be done on Windows (neither VMware Workstation
> nor Wine can help at the moment) so I got a copy of the mingw port of
> GIT (http://lilypond.org/git/binaries/mingw/git-1.5.2.1-1.mingw.exe).
>
> Installation succeeded without a single error but when I tried to run
> a few GIT commands I noticed a "bug":
>
> the git.exe command does not recognize any scripted subcommand
> (git-clone in my case) !
> > C:\Programme\Git>git clone
> > git: 'clone' is not a git-command
>
> Do I need another software package ? I tried to install the Mingw
> package itself, but it did not help at all.
Yes, you need a shell and some Posix tools. Install MSYS, e.g.
MSYS-1.0.11-2004.04.30-1.exe
You will also want a ssh and perl, e.g. from
msysDTK-1.0.1.exe
and MinGW's tcl/tk from
tcltk-8.4.1-1.exe
Also, git-am seems to require bash 3.1, e.g. from
bash-3.1-MSYS-1.0.11-snapshot.tar.bz2
-- Hannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-09 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-08 18:26 [mingw port] Problem starting git subcommands Henning Rogge
2007-07-09 8:49 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4691F68B.832047D1@eudaptics.com \
--to=j.sixt@eudaptics$(echo .)com \
--cc=git@vger$(echo .)kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox