Re: Git for Windows for Unix?

2018-09-29 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Fri, Sep 28 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 27 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > >>> That said, that seems to me like a lot of work to avoid adding some >>> patches to "next" that belong in "next" anyway. I understand why the >>> Git for Windows

Re: Git for Windows for Unix?

2018-09-29 Thread SZEDER Gábor
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 09:57:11PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Another way to look at it, which is closer to what I was thinking about, > is to just view GFW as some alternate universe "next" branch (which by > my count is ~2-3k commits ahead of master[1]). > 1. $ git log

Re: Git for Windows for Unix?

2018-09-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> That said, that seems to me like a lot of work to avoid adding some >> patches to "next" that belong in "next" anyway. I understand why the >> Git for Windows maintainer does not always have time to upstream >>

Re: Git for Windows for Unix?

2018-09-28 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Thu, Sep 27 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > >> So it's similar to various packages that have "alternates" and are semi >> or permanently forked, like emacs & xemacs, JDK etc., although I can't >> recall one offhand that's quite similar to GFW v.s.

Re: Git for Windows for Unix?

2018-09-27 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 6:24 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > My only stake in this is I thought it would be neat to be able to "apt > install git-for-windows", That's what private builds are for (or "PPA" if debian has an equivalent). I already largely ignore any Windows reports because I

Re: Git for Windows for Unix?

2018-09-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > So it's similar to various packages that have "alternates" and are semi > or permanently forked, like emacs & xemacs, JDK etc., although I can't > recall one offhand that's quite similar to GFW v.s. git.git. > > My only stake in this is I thought it would be

Re: Git for Windows for Unix?

2018-09-27 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Thu, Sep 27 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > >> GFW is a "friendly fork", but a permanent one it seems. The diff between >> it and 2.19.0 proper is ~10k lines, and e.g. this last release had >> experimental stash/rebase in C that 2.19.0 didn't. >> >> So it

Re: Git for Windows for Unix?

2018-09-27 Thread Derrick Stolee
On 9/27/2018 12:01 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: I had an IRC conversation with Johannes saying I didn't know Git For Windows builds perfectly well for Linux, this just isn't advertised in the ANNOUNCE E-Mails, so I hadn't tried. We run CI to ensure it builds and tests on Mac OSX, too.

Re: Git for Windows for Unix?

2018-09-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > GFW is a "friendly fork", but a permanent one it seems. The diff between > it and 2.19.0 proper is ~10k lines, and e.g. this last release had > experimental stash/rebase in C that 2.19.0 didn't. > > So it would be great if this were packaged up by linux distro as

Git for Windows for Unix?

2018-09-27 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
I had an IRC conversation with Johannes saying I didn't know Git For Windows builds perfectly well for Linux, this just isn't advertised in the ANNOUNCE E-Mails, so I hadn't tried. Johannes doesn't build his own tarballs, but these are provided at: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/tags