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Re: Cygwin SSH and msysGit


Greetings, Someone Somebody!

> I managed to get cygwin SSH working configured to run as SYSTEM and
> cyglsa installed. And now I want to setup so I can use Git push/pull
> over ssh.

> The problem is that to use msysGit I would have to add it's "bin" and
> "libexec/git" directories to the PATH. But this also adds various
> command binaries which override the native cygwin one's, which are
> obviously much more up-to-date and work better inside cygwin.

> I can try and use Cygwin's Git but I'm not sure if it will inter
> operate correctly with msysGit clones.

> So my questions are:
> 1. Can Cygwin's Git inter operate with a clone from msysGit? at least
> for push/pull purposes?

I have no extensive knowledge of git, but assuming it doesn't do retarded
things, like writing OS-dependent text files in service areas, I don't see,
why not.

> 2. Is there a way so that msysGit can be integrated into a Cygwin
> environment without disturbing Cygwin's command binaries or Cygwin's
> binaries interfering with msysGit?

Assuming, you do NOT have Cygwin git installed, you can add MSYS's dirs after
cygwin in $PATH.


--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 06.02.2014, <01:37>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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