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On 9/29/05, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> I have made a first cut at a git port to Cygwin.  It looks like the
> "git-diff-tree -p" problem has been resolved independently, or at least
> I can't reproduce it on a fresh Cygwin install (running on XP Home), but
> I have added support for running without the IPv6 and the getaddrinfo() API.
>
> 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 noticed that rename(2) in my copy of cygwin (1.5.18-1) does not remove the
target and returns an error (probably EPERM, but I have reasons not to trust
strerror on that thing).
The repository was on FAT.
Taking "rename(2)" from cygwin's libiberty solved this (they unlink if link(2)
returns EEXIST).

PS: Does broken rename(2) qualify a system "not worthy to support"?