From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Barkalow Subject: Re: git 0.99.7b doesn't build on Cygwin Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 23:04:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <7vbr2iw6l3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Linus Torvalds , Davide Libenzi , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Sep 25 05:02:09 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EJMlW-0005Xk-Nj for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 05:01:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751064AbVIYDAV (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Sep 2005 23:00:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751066AbVIYDAV (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Sep 2005 23:00:21 -0400 Received: from iabervon.org ([66.92.72.58]:525 "EHLO iabervon.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751064AbVIYDAU (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Sep 2005 23:00:20 -0400 Received: (qmail 7930 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Sep 2005 23:04:46 -0400 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Sep 2005 23:04:46 -0400 To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7vbr2iw6l3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Making really really core part usable on Windows would not need > this, but there is another thing: .git/HEAD symlink. Cygwin supports symlinks without underlying filesystem support. It does basically the standard UNIX thing for symlinks, but inefficiently in userspace. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank*