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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:27:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: gdb.git mirror is broken
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> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:10:40 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: jim@meyering.net, hjl.tools@gmail.com, tromey@redhat.com,
> 	gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> > That's the point: I don't use Cygwin and don't want to install one.
> > The only other port of git is based on MSYS, which in many ways has
> > the same problems as Cygwin, as far as I'm concerned.
> 
> It would be useful to explain what the same problems are, because
> I am still in the dark as to what they are.

In a nutshell, the problem is having a heavyweight package installed
with incompatible versions of all the tools I use every day (in their
native w32 ports).

> If git is not an option because you can't find a client that works
> for you, then the only other realistic option we have is SVN. Do you
> know of a SVN client that works for you?

SVN is fine.