Hi,

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Peter Harris wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> > But then it is funny that non-paged text is not coloured, no?
> 
> Yes. Very strange.
> 
> It looks like msys-based apps get color if they're running under an msys 
> shell. It looks like git is compiled as a mingw application, not an msys 
> application. Given that perl, less, and other parts of the msysGit 
> distribution are msys-based, does it make sense to link git with msys?

Ah, that is the explanation.

No, Git should not be compiled as an MSys application.  MSys only provides 
a very rudimentary POSIXish environment, and it is really only meant for 
the official MSys programs.  (We slightly abused it, to get git-svn to 
run.)

Ciao,
Dscho

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