Making an installer

As the installer is made by putting together files from the Git SDK, it is advisable to update those files first. To update the packages, call pacman -Syu (caveats apply).

If you want to test Git changes or make an installer from your own Git fork, you need to call

cd /usr/src/git
make install

for documentation changes:

make install-html

and afterwards

prefix=/mingw64 make -C contrib/subtree install-html

without this second make you get an error message about a missing git-subtree.html file).

To make an installer, install the SDK and run it

Git for Windows SDK MinGW shell can be run by double-clicking either the Shortcut on the desktop Git SDK 32-bit.lnk or by double-clicking mingw32_shell.bat in the install folder. That is Git SDK 64-bit.lnk and mingw64_shell.bat for the 64bit SDK installer.

then issue the following commands:

cd /usr/src/build-extra
git pull master
./installer/release.sh <version>-test

where <version> is the Git version (please note that the <version> cannot contain dots after the numerical version: 2.7.2-hello-world is okay while 2.7.2.hello.world is not okay).