convergence with git for windows

[mipac]

is it possible that these 2 wonderful projects converge
msys2 could install only mingw-w64 package, and gitforwindows only a subset of official msys2

or there are some hard points too difficult to solve?

[Biswa96]

git-for-windows uses msys2. One can use msys2 and install git package and configure it own way.

[mipac]

yes... and no...
msys/git doesn't behave the same
experimental mingw-w64 package too
there are some works done by the git for windows project, that I can't understand well, that make that version very efficient, for the credentials, the proxy, the charsets, the shell integration etc...
from a user point of view like me, it's sad to have a good unix like environnement like msys2 to compile my software with cmake gcc and a good shell
but with a "good" git outside, in a quasi clone environnement...

the msys layer is slow, and with that windows crasyness even mingw layer is hard to keep reasonnably fast, antivirus, wmiperv etc...

I dream of a quasi full mingw native environnement with all dev tool and git from the same shell 😜

[sskras]

@mipac, thanks for bringing some of differences up. But don't you think you contradict yourself here:

to have a good unix like environnement like msys2
...
the msys layer is slow

?

[mipac]

I don't know... perhaps... and that's not the point
if some code/lib/tool need a posix emulation, ok
but it's strange to have a msys/git with some problems when using in nowadays enterprise desktop
and a mingw/git on the other hand wich is simple to use, but with a shell "poor"

I think that a lot of users dream of msys shell with some "slow" tools using posix layer and as most as possible the full toolchain to build native soft and libs, using a "good" git 😜

I'd prefer that to wsl and all that boring stuff... just to use good shell, good libs, good tools, and compilers to windows target
it's so hard to make it works... that users around me switch to cygwin or wsl... I don't feel that the good way, mingw-w64 environnement is better, even if some support functions are little slow

[lygstate]

refer #2176