How to get Git 1.8 in Cygwin? [closed]

Answer 1

cygwinports has many new versions of various tools

At the time i write this it has 1.8.3.4

New, simplified installation instructions:

• Use the latest Cygwin installers (at least version 2.829): setup-x86.exe for 32-bit, or setup-x86_64.exe for 64-bit. (Note that many packages have not yet been ported to x86_64.)

• Launch setup-*.exe with the -K flag, e.g.:

  cygstart -- /path/to/setup-x86.exe -K http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg

• On Choose Installation Type page, select "Install from Internet".

• On Choose Download Site(s) page, select a distro mirror, then enter ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports in the User URL field and press Add (making sure that both are highlighted).
  1. Alternatively, you can use a sourceware mirror, but if you do, you must use one hosted on a different server than your selected distro mirror.
• Proceed with package selection and installation, making sure to install any indicated dependencies.

Answer 2

You're instructions didn't really work for me...

I followed these instructions (as far as making sure all the correct packages are installed)

http://randomartifacts.blogspot.com/2013/04/compiling-git-on-cygwin.html

Modified the Makefile

$ git diff Makefile
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3588ca1..90f337c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ RPMBUILD = rpmbuild
 TCL_PATH = tclsh
 TCLTK_PATH = wish
 XGETTEXT = xgettext
-MSGFMT = msgfmt
+MSGFMT = msgfmt.py
 PTHREAD_LIBS = -lpthread
 PTHREAD_CFLAGS =
 GCOV = gcov

then

make configure NO_MSGFMT_EXTENDED_OPTIONS=1
./configure
make NO_MSGFMT_EXTENDED_OPTIONS=1
make install NO_MSGFMT_EXTENDED_OPTIONS=1

Not sure if the param is needed for all the make commands, but this worked for me

Answer 3

I got problem when doing "make install". The error message is:

install -d -m 755 '/usr/local/bin'
git: 'installation' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
./install: line 4: Normally: command not found
./install: line 5: will: command not found
./install: line 6: to: command not found
./install: line 8: $: command not found
./install: line 11: syntax error near unexpected token .'
./install: line 11:(or prefix=/usr/local, of course). Just like any program suite'

This is due to the case insensitivity of Windows OS if you have "./" in your PATH. Cygwin use the INSTALL file in the git source tree instead of /usr/bin/install. We have to rename some "INSTALL" files in the source tree to other file name. This is mentioned by http://zengrong.net/post/1817.htm

Answer 4

You can install the latest version for the Windows platform from git-scm.com/download/win.

Add the following to your ~/.profile:

export PATH=$PATH:`cygpath 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin'`

I use this git client from both SourceTree and cygwin in combination with a Gerrit/SSH server and did not run into any problem yet.

Answer 5

I had a problem doing this that took me an hour to debug, so am posting an answer in case anyone else comes here looking.

Actually it is the same cause as Yorkwar's, but different errors.

Everything goes fine until make install outputs:

$ make install
    GEN perl/PM.stamp
    SUBDIR gitweb
    SUBDIR ../
make[2]: 'GIT-VERSION-FILE' is up to date.
    GEN git-instaweb
    BUILTIN all
    SUBDIR git-gui
    SUBDIR gitk-git
    SUBDIR perl
    SUBDIR templates
install -d -m 755 '/usr/local/bin'
make: execvp: install: Permission denied
Makefile:2342: recipe for target 'install' failed
make: *** [install] Error 127

After a lot of mucking with UAC, setuid, icacls, ownership etc. , I found via strace that the actual problem is that when executing install: since I have ./ in my PATH, and Windows is case-insensitive, it tries to execute INSTALL, which is a textfile that does not have the x bit set. So the "Permission denied" refers to the fact that x is not set on this file.

@Yorkwar fixed this by renaming all the INSTALL files, however another option is to edit Makefile and replace

INSTALL = install

with

INSTALL = /usr/bin/install

I'm using cygwin 32-bit in Windows 7 64-bit (installed it before cygwin64 came out and haven't bothered to upgrade). Successfully built and install git version 2.0.0.rc4.dirty which was the result of git clone https://github.com/git/git.git.

Answer 6

I successfully installed git 1.8.4.474 by following these instructions; I'm running Windows 7 64 bits, cygwin version 1.7.22(0.268/5/3)

1. Run the Cygwin setup utility and ensure you have the following packages installed:

   gcc
   autoconf
   curl
   libcurl-devel, required for http/https support 
                  (NOTE: this is an obsolete package, you will need to
                  uncheck "Hide obsolete packages" when selecting packages
                  to install)
   make
   libiconv
   python
   perl
   gettext
   

   You may need libiconv-devel and cygwin32-liviconv (see Marek's comment)

2. Clone the Git sources with git clone https://github.com/git/git.git. A couple of notes on that with respect to Git configuration:

   Make sure core.autocrlf=false, otherwise you'll end up with DOS style line endings that cause the build to break.

   I also had a screwy http.sslcainfo property value; either unset it or point it to /usr/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt.

3. From your newly cloned git repo, run the following commands:

   make configure
   ./configure
   make
   make install