[Scilab-Dev] Git / Scilab

[François Vogel]

Sylvestre Ledru said on 17/10/2008 15:30:
> A short message to let you know that the migration to git has gone well.
> It is now available here:
> git clone git://git.scilab.org/scilab

Well, well, well... Not so easy.

As you may know I'm mainly using Windows. Yes, that's perhaps sad, but 
that's life. I therefore searched for a way of using git on Windows.

I have found two ways:
   - msysgit, which looks OK at first sight
   - git under cygwin

I tried msysgit first. Installing the binaries worked flawlessly. But 
running Git Bash triggered issue 108:
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=108

I can't fix this. My home directory has a ç char in it, this was done 
ages ago and I can't change this (yes, I tried and this ended up in an 
incredible scramble in my computer I needed hours to fix).

=> Exit msysgit, too bad.


The I tried git under cygwin. Also here installing git was easy.

Then I tried the command you provide above. It spat:

$ git clone git://git.scilab.org/scilab
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/Francois/scilab/.git/
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Do I need an ssh key just to clone a repository? Would be a bit 
strange but maybe. I think it's needed for commit access only.

Anyway, git under cygwin cannot be an option since I want to use git 
for compiling Scilab. And, guess what, this is not supported nor even 
possible, as far as I know in the current trunk. Scilab support on 
cygwin was removed a long time ago.

=> Exit git on cygwin


So, what are the other options?
Currently I can see no solution to go on with Scilab/Scipad 
development on Windows.

What should I do? How do *you* manage to use git under Windows?

Thanks,
Francois