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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: Common setting for interoperability repo across windows and
	unix?
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:01:22 -0800
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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > git-daemon doesn't (currently) work on msysgit. Currently I run git-daemon
> > on my linpus netbook and pull/push from windows.
> 
> I didn't know that.  Windows sockets are mercifully very nearly
> compatible with Linux ones, so hopefully this wouldn't be too hard to
> fix for someone that needs it.  (Not me; I prefer cygwin over msys in
> all cases.)

git-daemon relies on fork, do work, then later exec.  Windows lacks
this concept.  Making it hard to port.

-- 
Shawn.