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From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] difftool: Disable --symlinks on cygwin
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:39:03 +0200
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On 07/25/2012 05:14 AM, David Aguilar wrote:
> Symlinks are not ubiquitous on Windows so make --no-symlinks the default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
> ---
> I don't have cygwin so I can't verify this one myself.
> Is 'cygwin' really the value of $^O there?
>
Apparently yes:

  $ uname -rso
  CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) Cygwin
  $ perl -e 'print $^O'
  cygwin

Regards,
  Stefano