mingw-w64-git not found?

[prasannavl]

Hi, I'm trying to install mingw version of the git, with the potential goal of experimenting with replacing the git official package with mingw built ones by adding a set of symlinks to the system PATH of the necessary commands.

However, I was surprised to see that I couldn't actually install it with pacman, although I do see a package of the same name in this repo: pacman -S mingw-w64-git/pacboy -S git:m fails with target not found.

Perhaps, I misunderstood something? Would appreciate any help. Thanks.

[ArekPiekarz]

From pacboy help:

For 64-bit MSYS2, name:i means i686-only
For 64-bit MSYS2, name:x means x86_64-only
For MSYS shell, name:m means mingw-w64
For all shells, name: disables any translation for name
For all shells, repository::name means repository/name

I don't know which shell you used, but I'm using 64-bit one and this worked for me:
pacboy sync git:

[prasannavl]

@ArekPiekarz, unless I've mistaken, what you just installed was the msys variant of git from the msys-packages repo. It's not the mingw variant that's in this repo, that's meant to run natively without a POSIX layer. They're not the same. The first line of my post also hints at why the differentiation is vital.

[elieux]

@prasannavl, correct.

Our mingw-w64-git build is not too great due to our path conversion heuristic and the hybrid nature of Git. AFAIK that's why it's not part of the distribution. See Git for Windows for a way to install mingw-w64-git.

I'm closing this ticket as a duplicate, but if you want to discuss further, let's.

[prasannavl]

@elieux - Thanks for the clarification! Incidentally, I also ended up stumbling upon few other discussions that are related. Just gathering them here, should someone else run into this:

• Git for Windows (provided above by @elieux )
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40262434/what-are-the-differences-between-msys-git-and-git-for-windows-mingw-w64-x86-64-g
• The procedure entry point curl_global_sslset could not be located in the dynamic link library libcurl-4.dll. git-for-windows/git#1277 (comment)
• Integrate our mingw-w64-git into MSYS2 proper git-for-windows/git#284