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swcarpentry / windows-installer

Software Carpentry installer for Windows.
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Version of Git for Windows out of date #53

Open evanwill opened 8 years ago

evanwill commented 8 years ago

Links to Git for Windows point to https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/releases which is deprecated. The newer version of Git for Windows (>2.0) is no longer developed with msysGit (msysGit is referenced though out this repository). It is now developed using Git for Windows SDK. The git bash terminal is now based on MinTTY by default. This may change things for the installer.

iamc commented 8 years ago

In our workshop webpage the link for Git for Windows correctly points to https://git-for-windows.github.io/ and this comes from the web template.

See http://iamc.eu/2016-06-27-cfmehu/

evanwill commented 8 years ago

I am looking at the file in this repository, swc-windows-installer.py https://github.com/swcarpentry/windows-installer/blob/master/swc-windows-installer.py line 20 - 21 it says:

  1. Install msysGit

    https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/releases

Which is a link for msysgit, which is deprecated and superseded by Git for Windows 2.x.

embray commented 8 years ago

IIRC there are/were reasons for using msysgit, but @wking might know.

That said if it's now marked as deprecated that is worth looking at. "Git for Windows SDK" just looks so bloated by comparison....

IIRC there were also problems related to MinTTY and nano.

iamc commented 8 years ago

Beware that the manual installation instructions point to the new Git for Windows installer https://git-for-windows.github.io/ , even with the nano et al problems.

evanwill commented 7 years ago

is this issue related to reported problems with getting the Installer to work, or getting Nano to work after using the installer? Are some people installing the updated Git for Windows and it doesn't work, but other are installing the old version where the installer works?