Re: [PATCH] git-gui (MinGW): make use of MSys2's msgfmt

[Lars Schneider]

> On 25 Jul 2017, at 10:35, Johannes Schindelin  
> wrote:
> 
> When Git for Windows was still based on MSys1, we had no gettext, ergo
> no msgfmt, either. Therefore, we introduced a small and simple Tcl
> script to perform the same task.
> 
> However, with MSys2, we no longer need that because we have a proper
> msgfmt executable. Plus, the po2msg.sh script somehow manages to hang
> when run in parallel in Git for Windows' SDK (symptom: the Continuous
> Testing tasks timing out).
> 
> Two reasons to use real msgfmt.exe instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin 
> ---
> 
>   This hopefully fixes the hangs with the Windows builds triggered
>   by Travis. It was a tough one to figure out originally, and it is

Awesome :-) Thanks for digging into this problem!

- Lars

Re: [PATCH] git-gui (MinGW): make use of MSys2's msgfmt

[Junio C Hamano]

Johannes Schindelin  writes:

>   Pat, I still have a couple of Pull Request open in your repository
>   at https://github.com/patthoyts/git-gui/pulls/dscho that await any
>   reaction since October 14th last year. Please let me know when you
>   are ready to accept code contributions again. In the meantime, I
>   will send git-gui patches to this here mailing list, Cc:ing you,
>   and hoping that Junio will take the patches.

I'll try to fetch the latest from Pat, apply this on top and queue
it in my tree in the meantime, but that is a lot more involved than
simply applying a single patch to a new branch and merging it to
'pu', so it will be done later in today's integration cycle after I
handle other topics.

Thanks for working on this.

[PATCH] git-gui (MinGW): make use of MSys2's msgfmt

[Johannes Schindelin]

When Git for Windows was still based on MSys1, we had no gettext, ergo
no msgfmt, either. Therefore, we introduced a small and simple Tcl
script to perform the same task.

However, with MSys2, we no longer need that because we have a proper
msgfmt executable. Plus, the po2msg.sh script somehow manages to hang
when run in parallel in Git for Windows' SDK (symptom: the Continuous
Testing tasks timing out).

Two reasons to use real msgfmt.exe instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin 
---

This hopefully fixes the hangs with the Windows builds triggered
by Travis. It was a tough one to figure out originally, and it is
my fault for prioritizing other patch contributions of this one;
Git for Windows has been carrying this patch since April 6th, 2015.

Pat, I still have a couple of Pull Request open in your repository
at https://github.com/patthoyts/git-gui/pulls/dscho that await any
reaction since October 14th last year. Please let me know when you
are ready to accept code contributions again. In the meantime, I
will send git-gui patches to this here mailing list, Cc:ing you,
and hoping that Junio will take the patches.

Published-As: 
https://github.com/dscho/git/releases/tag/git-gui-msgfmt-on-windows-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/dscho/git 
git-gui-msgfmt-on-windows-v1

 git-gui/Makefile | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/git-gui/Makefile b/git-gui/Makefile
index fe30be38dc8..918a8de3691 100644
--- a/git-gui/Makefile
+++ b/git-gui/Makefile
@@ -161,7 +161,9 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Darwin)
endif
 endif
 ifneq (,$(findstring MINGW,$(uname_S)))
+ifeq ($(shell expr "$(uname_R)" : '1\.'),2)
NO_MSGFMT=1
+endif
GITGUI_WINDOWS_WRAPPER := YesPlease
GITGUI_RELATIVE := 1
 endif

base-commit: 5eada8987e79f216f2002a3cd991360a50cd577c
-- 
2.13.3.windows.1.13.gaf0c2223da0