From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Karlsson Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:13:49 +0100 (CET) Organization: /universe/earth/europe/norway/oslo Message-ID: References: <1192293466.17584.95.camel@homebase.localnet> <1192381040.4908.57.camel@homebase.localnet> <1773C6F0-87BE-4F3C-B68A-171E1F32E242@lrde.epita.fr> <47125F74.9050600@op5.se> <47126957.1020204@op5.se> <20071014221446.GC2776@steel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: git list X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 16 13:14:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IhkN9-0006mq-8p for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:14:03 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756655AbXJPLNw (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:13:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757345AbXJPLNw (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:13:52 -0400 Received: from ds9.cixit.se ([193.15.169.228]:53188 "EHLO ds9.cixit.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755098AbXJPLNv (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:13:51 -0400 Received: from ds9.cixit.se (peter@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ds9.cixit.se (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-7.2) with ESMTP id l9GBDnnQ027400 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:13:49 +0200 Received: from localhost (peter@localhost) by ds9.cixit.se (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-7.2) with ESMTP id l9GBDna3027395; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:13:49 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: ds9.cixit.se: peter owned process doing -bs In-Reply-To: <20071014221446.GC2776@steel.home> Accept: text/plain X-Warning: Junk / bulk email will be reported X-Rating: This message is not to be eaten by humans X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (ds9.cixit.se [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:13:49 +0200 (CEST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > - it is the only OS in the world with multi-root (/a/b/c and /a/b/c > can be not the same, depending on what current "drive" is) and > multi-cwd, which hasn't had formed itself into a problem yet, but > surely will It's not the only OS with drive letters (although I don't see Git coming to my Symbian OS phone any time soon), but there is only one root. The problem is that it isn't addressable in the file system, and that the concept of what is the root is different depending on what you ask (either it's above the drive letters, or "My Computer"). You can create a search path rooted in "My Computer" if you want (using shell APIs), but you probably can't get a readable text representation of it. > - it has only one argument (limited in size) passed to started > programs, which means that there is no possible way to safely pass > file and text arguments on command line (more than one, that is) Well, there are many other ways of passing arguments than on the command line, but they are probably difficult to access from console applications (things like DDE or whatever the current implementation is called). -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/