Building Git

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nalla edited this page Mar 24, 2015 · 38 revisions

We build Git for Windows using an MSys2 based Git for Windows SDK. This SDK can be installed via a net-installer

Installing a build environment

Just install the net-installer.

Build Git

An initial git clone and make should have already occurred when installing the net-installer.
Open the Git for Windows SDK by double clicking either mingw32_shell.bat or mingw64_shell.bat.
cd /usr/src/git.
Build Git: make.
Run the test suite: make test

This wiki page has been retired. All it did was to point to Git for Windows' governance model.