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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:14:25 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > I do not see any reason why libification helps the user experience on 
> > Windows.
> 
> I was under the impression that the windows port suffers from Windows' 
> lack of a proper fork() and friends and that a proper library would help 
> solving those problems. Perhaps I was misinformed.

It suffered.  Until Hannes Sixt did a very fine job which cumulated in the 
patch series he posted yesterday.  Of course, this work is the reason 
msysGit is functional.

Ciao,
Dscho