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
