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Clifford Caoile wrote:
> I am interested in a Portable ("Portable Apps"?) edition, but its not
> a burning need for me. I could use it whenever I borrow a coworker's
> laptop or whenever I'm in a net-cafe (not very likely)... ;-) I used
> the Firefox 3 beta series via Portable Apps and it was very useful for
> testing.
As a dev tool, I don't really see any need to fit in with the Portable
Apps series. However, I'll take a look at their nsis installer framework
when I get some free time, and the bigger issues with msysgit are fixed.
> Perhaps it would be more portable to reuse the concepts in git.cmd
> instead of setting the hard-coded path. (e.g. one cannot guarantee
> "PortableApps\Git") Take a look at the FOR for setting the path.
I agree: the batch script was something hacked out very quickly for my
own use. What's more interesting about the code are the workarounds I
needed to do to make it portable.
> Also,
> is it necessary to call wish.exe directly? Would it be better or worse
> to let git.exe gui do it?
That's the way the shortcut msysgit installs does it. I'm not sure if
git.exe gui would be any better.
> One interesting thing is that "USB memory" devices for Windows are
> often FAT format, so some install size optimations and features
> dependent on NTFS will not work. In this age however, I suppose its
> better to just reformat the whole device to NTFS or use TrueCrypt or
> other fs-in-a-container tech.
We could offer this as an end-user warning, however, it's not really in
our control. :-)
Cheers,
Edward
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