From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req. Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 09:49:35 +0200 Message-ID: <83iou1y06o.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140102095347.6834E381D0C@snark.thyrsus.com> <87fvp6bdd9.fsf_-_@ktab.red-bean.com> <83wqiixqbb.fsf@gnu.org> <20140102172804.GB13245@thyrsus.com> <83vby2xo6x.fsf@gnu.org> <83r48qxg6e.fsf@gnu.org> <87y52y5bau.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388735389 7176 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2014 07:49:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 07:49:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 03 08:49:50 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VyzVs-0002zE-Qo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 08:49:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48535 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VyzVs-0004wb-Fp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 02:49:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56226) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VyzVl-0004oq-6b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 02:49:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VyzVf-0005SJ-TS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 02:49:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:51099) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VyzVf-0005SC-LP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 02:49:35 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MYT00100EUVN100@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 09:49:34 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MYT0013YF2MAC80@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 09:49:34 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87y52y5bau.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167120 Archived-At: > From: =D3scar Fuentes > Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 22:22:17 +0100 >=20 > Eli Zaretskii writes: >=20 > >> Git works pretty well on Windows these days > > > > Pretty well my foot: it requires a complete separate shell set up= with > > a separate PATH, to keep its singular version of MSYS out of my m= ain > > development environment. >=20 > This is not correct. You only need git.cmd in the PATH and, IIRC, t= hat > is avoidable too if you use git from Emacs interfaces (VC and/or Ma= git). That is only a solution if you don't use git from the command line. > As a curiosity, I'll mention that MSYSGit git.exe doesn't depend on > MSYS.dll No, but some git commands need Bash and shell scripts, and thus invok= e MSYS programs that do need the MSYS DLL. > It would be interesting to know which functionality is missing if > you remove the stuff that depends on MSYS.dll from MSYSGit package. If someone knows where to find this information, please speak up.