Re: [PATCH] Define a version of lstat(2) with posix semantics

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

2009/3/20 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
> On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Alex Riesen wrote:
> (Unfortunately, a few important parts of Git are still implemented as
> shell scripts: bisect, pull and rebase being the most obvious to me, but
> repack, stash and submodule are not too unimportant, either.)

I can't imagine not using bisect or rebase.

>> My other problem is that the cygwin programs, and the worst of all - a
>> proprietary compiler based on cygwin, must be in PATH. AFAIR, the
>> presence of cygwin in PATH broken shell scripting.
>
> If it is a PATH issue, then it should be fixable by teaching msysGit to
> prepend $GIT_ROOT/bin and $GIT_ROOT/libexec/git-core to the PATH, but
> AFAIR we already do that.
>
> *clicketyclick*
>
> Yep, from reading setup_path() in exec_cmd.c, it appears that we prepend
> the PATH correctly.
>
> Traditionally, we did have problems with Cygwin, that is correct, but I
> think with your help we can resolve the interaction issues.

Ok. I guess it is a time for me to take another look at mingw port.