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Every once in a while, there are bug reports in Git for Windows' bug tracker that describe an issue running [inside MSYS2 proper](https://gitforwindows.org/install-inside-msys2-proper), totally ignoring the big, honking warning on top of [the page](https://gitforwindows.org/install-inside-msys2-proper) that spells out clearly that this is an unsupported use case. At the same time, we cannot easily deflect and say "just use MSYS2 directly" (and leave the "and stop pestering us" out). We cannot do that because there is only an _MSYS_ `git` package in MSYS2 (i.e. a Git that uses the quite slow POSIX emulation layer provided by the MSYS2 runtime), but no `mingw-w64-git` package (which would be equivalent in speed to Git for Windows). In https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/pull/26470, I am preparing to change that. As part of that PR, I noticed and fixed a couple of issues _in `git-for-windows/git` that prevented full support for `mingw-w64-git` in MSYS2, such as problems with CLANG64 and UCRT64. While at it, I simplified the entire setup to trust MSYS2's `MINGW_PREFIX` & related environment variables instead of hard-coding values like the installation prefix and what `MSYSTEM` to fall back on if it is unset.
Contributed Software Although these pieces are available as part of the official git source tree, they are in somewhat different status. The intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe even experimental ones, to give users an easier access to them, and to give tools wider exposure, so that they can be improved faster. I am not expecting to touch these myself that much. As far as my day-to-day operation is concerned, these subdirectories are owned by their respective primary authors. I am willing to help if users of these components and the contrib/ subtree "owners" have technical/design issues to resolve, but the initiative to fix and/or enhance things _must_ be on the side of the subtree owners. IOW, I won't be actively looking for bugs and rooms for enhancements in them as the git maintainer -- I may only do so just as one of the users when I want to scratch my own itch. If you have patches to things in contrib/ area, the patch should be first sent to the primary author, and then the primary author should ack and forward it to me (git pull request is nicer). This is the same way as how I have been treating gitk, and to a lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the drill. I expect things that start their life in the contrib/ area to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory. On the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused and inactive ones from time to time. If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves there is general interest (it does not have to be a list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is of general interest for people who need to interoperate with SVN repositories in a way git-svn works better than git-svnimport), submit a patch to create a subdirectory of contrib/ and put your stuff there. -jc