Add README for MSVC build

Based on original README patch from Frank Li, describe the steps
to build git with VS2008 (aka MSVC).

Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The Steps of Build Git with VS2008
1. You need the build environment, which contains the Git dependencies
to be able to compile, link and run Git with MSVC.
You can either use the binary repository:
WWW: http://repo.or.cz/w/msvcgit.git
Git: git clone git://repo.or.cz/msvcgit.git
Zip: http://repo.or.cz/w/msvcgit.git?a=snapshot;h=master;sf=zip
and call the setup_32bit_env.cmd batch script before compiling Git,
(see repo/package README for details), or the source repository:
WWW: http://repo.or.cz/w/gitbuild.git
Git: git clone git://repo.or.cz/gitbuild.git
Zip: (None, as it's a project with submodules)
and build the support libs as instructed in that repo/package.
2. Ensure you have the msysgit environment in your path, so you have
GNU Make, bash and perl available.
WWW: http://repo.or.cz/w/msysgit.git
Git: git clone git://repo.or.cz/msysgit.git
Zip: http://repo.or.cz/w/msysgit.git?a=snapshot;h=master;sf=zip
This environment is also needed when you use the resulting
executables, since Git might need to run scripts which are part of
the git operations.
3. Inside Git's directory run the command:
make common-cmds.h
to generate the common-cmds.h file needed to compile git.
4. Then build Git with the GNU Make Makefile in the Git projects root
make MSVC=1
Done!