Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD

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From: Steffen Prohaska
Date: Friday, August 10, 2007 - 12:19 am

On Aug 10, 2007, at 8:07 AM, Torgil Svensson wrote:


I think both. I'm currently conducting a survey what the Windows
users I'm working with are using. Up to now I have no idea what these
tools do. Note, I'm not working on Windows. But I would like to see
git starting the tools that users prefer to use.

Git would just feel more like a useful Windows tool if it interacted
with other useful Windows tools.

Here is what I have on my list (not yet prioritized):

- WinMerge (http://winmerge.org/)

- Visual Comparer (http://www.nikeware.com/vc-features.htm)

- Araxis Merge, http://www.araxis.com/merge/ (expensive!)

- Beyond Compare, http://www.scootersoftware.com/file-comparison.php  
(will support 3-way  with upcoming version 3; reasonable price)

- KDiff3, http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/ (comes with Windows- 
installer from SF)

- ECMerge, http://www.elliecomputing.com/Products/merge_overview.asp  
(OSS developer can get a "Pro" license for free upon request)

A complete list at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_comparison_tools



I don't see your point. The question is if git runs flawlessly
on 64 bit systems, which we use for development. I have no experience
with mingw. Maybe there are some issues with 64 bit Windows, maybe
not. But its a reasonable question?



The official repo would indicate a real commitment to me that
Windows support if officially maintained.

I agree that there may be more tools group around core git. But
core git itself should be the master from the official repo.
This seems to be a reasonable goal to me. At least that is what
we do. The head must compile on all supported platforms
out-of-the-box.



I work for years now on cross platform code. I never needed a whole
environment. I need Qt and the native development environment, like
Visual Studio, gcc, Xcode. I don't need KDE on Windows, I don't need
KDE on Mac. Everything's there already.

	Steffen

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git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Sebastian Schuberth, (Tue Aug 7, 2:02 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Johannes Schindelin, (Tue Aug 7, 4:58 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Sebastian Schuberth, (Tue Aug 7, 5:13 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Sebastian Schuberth, (Tue Aug 7, 6:18 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Shawn O. Pearce, (Tue Aug 7, 7:36 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Brian Downing, (Tue Aug 7, 7:58 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Sebastian Schuberth, (Tue Aug 7, 8:27 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Mark Levedahl, (Tue Aug 7, 8:29 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Tue Aug 7, 10:11 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Mark Levedahl, (Tue Aug 7, 10:42 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Tue Aug 7, 12:41 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Aug 7, 2:44 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Junio C Hamano, (Tue Aug 7, 3:26 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Junio C Hamano, (Tue Aug 7, 3:28 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Tue Aug 7, 3:46 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Tue Aug 7, 4:20 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Aug 7, 8:47 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Brian Downing, (Tue Aug 7, 9:25 pm)
Re: [PATCH] tests: added d2u to have unix style testfiles ..., Steffen Prohaska, (Tue Aug 7, 10:00 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Tue Aug 7, 10:46 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Sebastian Schuberth, (Wed Aug 8, 12:55 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Mark Levedahl, (Wed Aug 8, 6:50 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 8, 8:51 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Mark Levedahl, (Wed Aug 8, 9:41 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Aug 8, 10:20 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 8, 12:37 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 8, 1:13 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 8, 1:36 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Aug 8, 2:30 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Mark Levedahl, (Wed Aug 8, 4:07 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 8, 9:59 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Marius Storm-Olsen, (Wed Aug 8, 11:01 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 8, 11:20 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 8, 11:38 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Marius Storm-Olsen, (Wed Aug 8, 11:47 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Aug 9, 1:50 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Marius Storm-Olsen, (Thu Aug 9, 2:00 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Thu Aug 9, 3:33 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Torgil Svensson, (Thu Aug 9, 11:07 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Fri Aug 10, 12:19 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Johannes Schindelin, (Fri Aug 10, 3:30 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Fri Aug 10, 4:14 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Torgil Svensson, (Fri Aug 10, 3:31 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Fri Aug 10, 5:43 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Johannes Schindelin, (Mon Aug 13, 3:50 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Torgil Svensson, (Tue Aug 14, 5:04 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Tue Aug 14, 10:22 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, David Kastrup, (Tue Aug 14, 10:30 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Tue Aug 14, 10:43 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, David Kastrup, (Tue Aug 14, 11:59 pm)