Re: gnulib unnecessarily enforces git as requirement

[Benjamin Lindner]

>> I am using msys as build environment and git is not available there.
>
> From what I recall, git has been available on msys for some time.
> Have you looked at this?
>
>  http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/

Yes I have, but they use a tweaked (patched) version of msys, so it
follows that it is not compatible to msys from www.mingw.org. So my
original statement should read correctly: it's not available *for
official msys*.

Having two separate and different installation trees does not work
with cygwin, thus I guess it won't work with msys either.
Even if it would be possible, as msysgit ships with an entire msys
tree of its own, it would mean to have two separate msys installations
and having to call git from within one of them without it interfering
with the second and messing up the environment (mount tables, paths,
etc).
In my experience, with cygwin this does not work (that is: having a
official cygwin installation and then use some tool which ships with
its own cygwin dll)

And - closing the circle to the start of the report - since actually
git not required anyway, why add the extra effort of msysgit?

benjamin