Ray Donnelly <[email protected]>
writes:

> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Óscar Fuentes <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Last night I tried the MinGW-Git package and it worked for the type of
>> tasks one does on daily basis (log, add, commit, pull...) No problem was
>> observed.
>>
>> What's missing for that package to become officially released?
>>
>
> Relocation maybe (MSYS2 can be installed anywhere, we often need to
> use the code in mingw-w64-pathtools to work out relative paths - try
> installing MSYS2 to somewhere weird and see if git works there).

My install is on c:/apps/msys32 and that's no problem.

> Last time I checked, colours and pagination (during e.g. git log)
> weren't working either.

Both colors and pagination works on the MSYS2 shell. They do work on
cmd.exe too, although in that case the output starts with

WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
-  (press RETURN)

and you have to press RETURN.

To be more specific, invoking `git' from the MSYS2 shell executes an
script that invokes git.exe through winpty. Directly invoking git.exe
from the MSYS2 shell does not paginate nor shows colors.

I'm invoking git.exe directly from Emacs (for the built-in Version
Control features and the Magit package) and so far there are no issues.

Overall it looks quite good. Performance is similar to MSYSGit on the
WinXP 32 bits virtual machine that I tried (when using git.exe; the
`git' script adds quite a bit of overhead.) It will be interesting to
test a 64 bit build on a Windows 8 64 bits virtual machine, where
MSYSGit is annoyingly slow.

BTW, the winpty trick that enables pagination and color on MSYS2 shell
is a very recent change (hours ago).


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