Git 2.45 for AmigaOS4

I've just released a full Git client for AmigaOS4

We are tested it a lot and it seems to work very well. Keep in mind that you can't expect the same Linux/windows/mac speed because we have just one core that do everything.. So for example on X5000 git will be faster (even if there is a small problem on this machine). On the other machines you can't expect the same speed.
But for "normal" repositories it should work without any problem. If you think that git is stuck somewhere just wait.. be patient.
I will try to speed up it a little bit in next release.

You can read more here:
https://ko-fi.com/post/Bringing-Git-to ... road-to-a-work-P5P41SBYO5

And as usual please use:

https://github.com/afxgroup/git/issues

for all the problems you have
Thank you!

Finally, a proper git client. Don't get me wrong, sgit was fine for simple things, but this version is one million times ahead.

Thank you so much Andreas for working on this and the clib4, which is a crucial tool.

@afxgroup

Really amazing / good work.. this really changes a lot of things.

One things, people perhaps don’t get, is this work will reduce need for ugly workarounds in many ports.

@afxgroup

Absolutely AWESOME! Thank you!!!

well done

since git is a well known example of a linux command that should be very portable but still has many modern dependencies that must be hard to complete or configure out, and which you have managed to patch to build and run on OS4, it would be great if you have a chance to write up a case study about how you did it. Or even point an AI at your diffs to let it write all about it.

Most of the work has been done in spawnvpe function we use for git and Cmake. Instead of using fork() you run the command and use pipes to communicate. On git it was worst because they use stdin/stout to communicate too (along pipes)..
There are other fixes but not related to a specific amiga part. I've changed also path handling to manage amigaos path
Everything is wrapped in specific #ifdefs

@afxgroup

This tool is very important - thank you for porting this.

I have been trying this with some of my old repos (for example, ScummVM) that stopped to work with sgit.

There are occasional crashes during fetch that seem to point towards memory allocation. Managed to get a stack trace from serial:

@Capehill

Can you check the status of the memory when you get the crash? It seems that memory is full
And from the crashlog i can see:

[RAMLIB] LowMem_Expunge: Beginning Expunge Cycle....

@afxgroup

When fetching ScummVM, free RAM drops from 88% to around 25% and then git crashes. With my old repo, I set pack.windowMemory "100m" and pack.threads "1" but these didn't help. Need to research some more how to limit memory usage.

Then I tried to make a fresh clone and hit same problem. This issue might be reproducible if you try to clone ScummVM.

@Capehill

I'll try it. Thank you

@afxgroup

Nice!