I’ve tried msysGit and Git on Cygwin. Both work just fine in and of themselves and both run gitk and git-gui perfectly. Now how the heck do I configure a mergetool? (Vimdiff works on Cygwin, but preferably I would like something a little more user-friendly for some of our Windows-loving coworkers.) 19 Answers 19
I’m stuck behind a firewall so have to use HTTPS to access my GitHub repository. I’m using cygwin 1.7.7 on Windows XP. I’ve tried setting the remote to https://[email protected]/username/ExcelANT.git, but pushing prompts for a password, but doesn’t do anything once I’ve entered it. https://username:<password>github.com/username/ExcelANT.git and cloning the empty repo from scratch but each time it … Read more
I have googled and found many solutions but none work for me. I am trying to clone from one machine by connecting to the remote server which is in the LAN network. Running this command from another machine cause error. But running the SAME clone command using git://192.168.8.5 … at the server it’s okay and … Read more
I have a shell script that is used both on Windows/Cygwin and Mac and Linux. It needs slightly different variables for each versions. How can a shell/bash script detect whether it is running in Cygwin, on a Mac or in Linux? 10 Answers 10
I’m trying to install PyQt4 so I can mess around with it. The installation guide said I had to install Sip. The last step to installing Sip is to use the make install command. Windows doesn’t have that, so I looked it up and everything I saw said to install Cygwin. So I did. But…sip … Read more
I’m trying out Git on Windows. I got to the point of trying “git commit” and I got this error: Terminal is dumb but no VISUAL nor EDITOR defined. Please supply the message using either -m or -F option. So I figured out I need to have an environment variable called EDITOR. No problem. I … Read more
I want to make my C++ project cross platform, and I’m considering using Cygwin/MinGW. But what is the difference between them ? Another question is whether I will be able to run the binary on a system without Cygwin/MinGW ? 17 s 17 As a simplification, it’s like this: Compile something in Cygwin and you … Read more
