Support mingw-w64-git in the build-and-deploy workflow#151
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The idea, as laid out in the parent commit, is that the `git-sdk-*` repositories already bring everything that is required to build the mingw-w64-git package. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The `/usr/bin/git.exe` recently started failing because of Git for Windows' diverging OpenSSL DLL. Let's work around this, also in the future, by simply avoiding to use `/usr/bin/git.exe`. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When building with `MINGW_ARCH=mingw32`, the `PATH` gets set quite
differently, and we need to make sure that the DLLs expected by the
various Git commands (including most prominently the HTTPS remote
helper) are on the PATH.
This fixes the following symptom:
[...]
==> Retrieving sources...
-> Cloning git git repo...
Cloning into bare repository 'D:/git-sdk-64-build-installers/usr/src/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-git/git'...
fatal: remote helper 'https' aborted session
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading git git repo
Aborting...
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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I had to deploy the
mingw-w64-gitpackages manually, which failed spectacularly. These are the fixes that were required to make it all work.