Integrate our mingw-w64-git into MSYS2 proper

[dscho]

This ticket entails several tasks.

The biggest one is to get our msys2-runtime patches integrated into upstream (maybe not as-are, but with modifications).

We also need to make sure that our mintty changes are integrated into MSys2, either as-are (into MSYS2-packages), or even better as a new mintty release once mintty/mintty#471 is merged.

The remaining task is to rename our MINGW-packages' master branch and restart a new master from upstream, just integrating the diff to our mingw-w64-git.

[fabio-porcedda]

It would be great to be able to install msys2 and have also avaiable the latest version of git for windows!

Thanks for the effort.

[dscho]

It would be great to be able to install msys2 and have also avaiable the latest version of git for windows!

Thanks for the effort.

I am glad we are in agreement! This is exactly what this ticket is about.

[maoueh]

@fabio-porcedda This is already possible if you want. I'm doing this since a few months without problems.

I added instructions on the wiki: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Install-inside-MSYS2-proper

[nalla]

@maoueh the steps described there are roughly the same steps the Git for Windows SDK is doing. In fact. the Git for Windows SDK is roughly just that: MSYS2 with a special repository before the core repositories.

[maoueh]

I'm not sure I understand the meaning of your comment. Was it just informational?

[nalla]

Was it just informational

Sure.

[dscho]

So here are the Pull Requests I opened so far:

• Alexpux/Cygwin#3
• Alexpux/Cygwin#4
• Alexpux/Cygwin#5
• Alexpux/Cygwin#6
• Alexpux/Cygwin#7
• Alexpux/Cygwin#8
• Better support for pinning to the task bar mintty/mintty#471

Once those are in, I need to open another Pull Request to update the mintty MSys2 package, and then another one to switch mingw-w64-git to Git for Windows' code base, taking over maintainership as requested by @mingwandroid

[dscho]

Alexpux/Cygwin#3 was closed because the patch had made it into Cygwin proper in the meantime. The other msys2-runtime PRs were updated to the newest msys2-master.