any thoughts on adding a mingw git by syncing in https://github.com/git-for-windows/MINGW-packages/tree/main/mingw-w64-git
yes @dscho ^
Git for Windows overrides the MSYS2 runtime because it needs a couple tweaks to pass Git's test suite. It's therefore not enough to just sync mingw-w64-git. I never managed to convince Alexey to work together on resolving those issues and gave up a couple years ago. Maybe I should restart that effort, but my pandemic-related time constraints make that a rather daunting idea right now.
mingw-w64-git also adds the git-bash.exe and git-cmd.exe at the root directory, and /bin/bash.exe and /cmd/git.exe as convenience redirectors, which is probably not something MSYS2 would want to have. We'd need to figure out how to disentangle that (maybe as an extra package that has only those Git for Windows-specific global files) before we could move further on that.
are git-bash.exe is mingw program?
Yes. They are in the root directory because otherwise users would not discover them in, say, a Portable Git.
git-cmd.)
@mingwandroid, WRT :point_up: January 10, 2021 11:27 PM no worries, I'm not in a rush to have it done, just slightly annoyed/frustrated because finding the workaround is being harder than packaging several other tools. Hope they let you out soon! (despite not having much outside to go to :S)
Thanks @umarcor , I am back now. I must say that the Spanish health service took good care of me, despite my sorely lacking Spanish language skills. I will not say too much about the food, because as my dear Mum often says "if you can't say something nice it's best to say nothing at all" ;-)
Random thought. Is it possible to create a bot in github which will comment when a issue is fixed and the package is uploaded?
@Biswa96, it's pretty trivial to comment/open/close issues in GitHub using any library for interacting with the API, such as octokit (js) or pyGitHub (Python). However, I did not understand where do you want the comment to be posted. Can you please clarify?