Mingw-packages: Install mingw-git using pacman

[JoyceBabu]

Is it possible to install mingw git from msys using pacman?

[mingwandroid]

It's not ready yet. You can use msys2 git in the meantime.

[JoyceBabu]

Thank you. I have already installed msys2 git, but it did not accept windows path. I guess I will have to stick with 'Git for windows' for now.

Is installing mingw packages from msys2 possible at all?

[Alexpux]

Of course you can install mingw packages from our repo

[JoyceBabu]

Thank you @Alexpux

[maoueh]

@JoyceBabu Git For Windows being based on MSYS2 (and being a native mingw program), it's possible to install this version inside MSYS2 directly (with some quirks, but rather small in my opinion). I have this exact setup and it works great for me.

Simply follow instructions https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Install-inside-MSYS2-proper to install Git For Windows 2.x inside MSYS2 directly.

Cheers.

[JoyceBabu]

@maoueh Thank you, that is simple and very useful.

I have one more question. How can I make selected MSYS2 executables, available from CMD/PowerShell? Git for Windows currently allow you to add git.exe alone to PATH. Is it possible to create shims for selected executables from MSYS2?

[maoueh]

Usually, granularity is at the directory level meaning that all executables in a directory are exported by adding the said directory to PATH.

Usually, pure MSYS2 executables are of little interest in PowerShell alone because they don't handle Windows path style correctly (but those not handling file paths can usually work). You probably more want to add /mingw64/bin to your PATH.

Simply add Windows path style of /mingw64/bin (obtained by using from MSYS2 shell the command cygpath -w /mingw64/bin) to Windows PATH environment variables. For example, I added C:/Local/Msys2/mingw64/bin to Windows PATH environment variable for example so git is available there. For some software however, they might need more than this but it's usually enough for most of them. Otherwise, that's more advanced stuff you will need to dig yourself.

Good luck,
Matt

[JoyceBabu]

Thank you Matt.

[ankostis]

But how can we locate the git installation instructions each time?
Google stopped serving https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Install-inside-MSYS2-proper among the first search results :-(

[Alexpux]

MSYS2 project not provide mingw version of GIT.
Look at git for Windows project