From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:30:32 -0700 Message-ID: <7v64skpkbb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <433B3B10.5050407@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 29 06:31:21 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EKq47-0002BM-SS for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 06:30:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751172AbVI2Eag (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:30:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751182AbVI2Eag (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:30:36 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao01.cox.net ([68.230.241.38]:9116 "EHLO fed1rmmtao01.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751172AbVI2Eaf (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:30:35 -0400 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.4.9.127]) by fed1rmmtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20050929043033.HUWJ19461.fed1rmmtao01.cox.net@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:30:33 -0400 To: "H. Peter Anvin" In-Reply-To: <433B3B10.5050407@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Wed, 28 Sep 2005 17:53:36 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > There are still funnies. In particular, Cygwin and Samba handle > symlinks differently, so you can't trivially share a repository via > Samba. Linus' "symbolic refs" changes should eventually take care of that. I just sent out "The other side of Linus' symbolic refs" patch, saying that Cygwin capable of doing symlink would probably made it irrelevant. But it may not be a waste after all, considering what you said above.