Re: New application proposal - git-core SCM

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 11:01:16PM +0100, Tim O Callaghan wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I would like to propose myself as the cygwin maintainer for git-core.
>http://www.kernel.org/git/
>
>This now works out of the box on cygwin, but it does not yet have a cygwin
>package. I have created the patch to make it to generate cygwin install
>packages, which i will be sending to the git people shortly. As this is my
>first cygwin submission, i'll see how i get on with this before i attempt
>to package Cogito ;)
>
>-------- setup.hint ---------
># git-core setup.hint - file required by cygwin package manager
>#
># short description
>sdesc: "Git-core - SCM Developed for the Linux kernel"
># long description
>ldesc: "Git-core - SCM Developed for the Linux kernel - now available to
>the windows masses via the magic of Cygwin"
># package category
>category: Archive Devel
># depends
>requires: cygwin libiconv zlib openssl curl-devel diff merge ssh
>-------- setup.hint ---------
>
>URL's to packages will follow shortly.

I'm all for this package but, as a minor nit, I think your setup.hint is
a little too wordy.  Other than the first one, the comments don't add
any useful information and are, IMO, just clutter.

cgf