RE: FeatureRequest: Build improvements for Windows

2015-07-26 Thread Dangling Pointer
, many thanks for yournote about the new VS Community edition (I'm > still mainly working on an XP notebook for ease of carry). > > As an open community of independently minded folks it can tae a time to > gel around a reasonably common approach, especially as Git will always > be p

FW: FeatureRequest: Build improvements for Windows

2015-07-26 Thread Dangling Pointer
gmail.com >> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:15:10 -0700 >> Subject: Re: FeatureRequest: Build improvements for Windows >> To: danglingpoin...@outlook.com >> CC: git@vger.kernel.org >> >> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Dangling Pointer >> wrote: >>&g

FeatureRequest: Build improvements for Windows

2015-07-25 Thread Dangling Pointer
Hello, In my understanding, the ratio between the mere consumers of git on Windows vs. people who compile git for Windows is 100,000 : 1. If there is a breaking change in the workflow of the latter set, who use Visual Studio to build git from source, I assume that is doable given a good reason