I think msys of windows git provides a friendlier environment than the dos prompt but msys is mot mandatory for the working of windows git. A cmd file can execute the git command if full path to git is supplied.
However what if users just download the zipped source code but didn't clone the j source repository? Can they still build binaries? On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 at 10:04 PM Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > git tags would be useful for rebuilding historic versions of J. > > However, in our current process, we do not necessarily create a tag as > a part of a J release. > > So it would be nice if we retained enough information to retroactively > tag a release. > > I think the best way of achieving this goal would be to include the > git short hash (as provided by git rev-parse --short HEAD) in > JVERSION. > > For example: > > echo "#define GITHASH $(git rev-parse --short HEAD)" >jsrc/githash.h > > And then #GITHASH would be a quoted string which could be exposed in > the result of a !: verb. > > Accomplishing this in a .cmd file would be similar but I don't know > enough about that environment. (Possibly, the implementation of git > includes a mingw shell, which would support this exact same syntax?) > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
