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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] git clone <url> C:\cygwin\home\USER\repo' is
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Am 12.12.18 um 01:42 schrieb Steven Penny:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 7:39 AM Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>> - pc-windows
>>> - pc-win
>>> - win
>>
>> I find all of those horrible.
> 
> one windows triplet in use is "x86_64-pc-windows", used by Rust:
> 
> https://forge.rust-lang.org/other-installation-methods.html
> 
> which is how i came about my suggestions - again they arent great but they arent
> misleading as "Win32" is.

As long as C:\Windows\System32 on my Windows computer contains only 
64-Bit binaries, I consider the characters "3" and "2" next to each 
other in this order just noise and without any form of information. The 
important part of the name is "win".

-- Hannes