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Posted Apr 5, 2010 19:01 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Support large repositories! by cortana
Parent article: A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

Yeah, big packfiles pretty much require a 64-bit box right now (and, given
the near-zero popularity of new 32-bit boxes in non-embedded roles,
probably always).

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Posted Apr 5, 2010 23:15 UTC (Mon) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link] (5 responses)

And I am *eagerly* awaiting a 64-bit git client for Windows. :)

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Posted Apr 5, 2010 23:36 UTC (Mon) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (4 responses)

the code is 64 bit clean, does it not work if you compile it with a 64 bit compiler on windows?

or are you saying that git needs to provide pre-compiled binaries for 64 bit windows?

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Posted Apr 6, 2010 8:49 UTC (Tue) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link] (3 responses)

Pre-compiled binaries are necessary. I really don't have enough time to work out how to navigate
the maze that is preparing an mingw/msys environment followed by working out how to build git,
package it into an installer, etc.

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Posted Apr 8, 2010 16:39 UTC (Thu) by Spudd86 (subscriber, #51683) [Link] (2 responses)

err compiling git on msys should be just

./configure
make
make install

you may or may not have to call configure with --prefix=/usr to get a usable result... but I don't think git has much in the way of dependencies... unless you want things like gitk or git-svn

('course I am assuming you already have MSYS installed...)

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Posted Apr 8, 2010 16:40 UTC (Thu) by Spudd86 (subscriber, #51683) [Link]

Oh yea if you do what I said you don't need an installer, just fire up your MSYS shell and use git from there

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Posted Apr 8, 2010 16:48 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

But then I'm using git in msys, not the nicely-packaged msysgit. And I would need to have a 64-bit
msys environment installed on the developer's systems. Does that even exist?