[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-devel] Parallel processing in the compiler

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
> > how it should integrate with Windows, and how it should handle
> > LineEnding characters etc. ?Nothing difficult about it, and the tools
> > included work just fine.
> 
> Yes, I'm talking about msysgit.  It installs a whole msys tree, which
> I am not interested in, as I've explained above.  Perhaps I'll try and
> build git inside my own msys.  I have no idea why they just didn't
> integrate it - I'm sure there must be a reason.

Afaik, like cywin, msys has also started with keeping a global state. It
might be possible that recent builds of GIT have problems with installing
 multiple versions (or just moving them), while olders (that Graeme uses)
didn't.