>> I am using msys as build environment and git is not available there. > > From what I recall, git has been available on msys for some time. > Have you looked at this? > > http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
Yes I have, but they use a tweaked (patched) version of msys, so it follows that it is not compatible to msys from www.mingw.org. So my original statement should read correctly: it's not available *for official msys*. Having two separate and different installation trees does not work with cygwin, thus I guess it won't work with msys either. Even if it would be possible, as msysgit ships with an entire msys tree of its own, it would mean to have two separate msys installations and having to call git from within one of them without it interfering with the second and messing up the environment (mount tables, paths, etc). In my experience, with cygwin this does not work (that is: having a official cygwin installation and then use some tool which ships with its own cygwin dll) And - closing the circle to the start of the report - since actually git not required anyway, why add the extra effort of msysgit? benjamin
