From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:07:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <433B767E.7050704@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v64skpkbb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>
>
>>There are still funnies. In particular, Cygwin and Samba handle
>>symlinks differently, so you can't trivially share a repository via
>>Samba. Linus' "symbolic refs" changes should eventually take care of that.
>
>
> I just sent out "The other side of Linus' symbolic refs" patch,
> saying that Cygwin capable of doing symlink would probably made
> it irrelevant. But it may not be a waste after all, considering
> what you said above.
>
After looking at it some more, what Samba does when talking to a host
that doesn't support Unix extensions is that it simply resolves the
symlink, in effect turning it into a hard link. That might be all git
needs. The reverse still doesn't work, though.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-29 5:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-29 0:53 First cut at git port to Cygwin H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-29 4:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-29 5:07 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-09-29 4:46 ` Martin Langhoff
2005-09-29 5:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-29 6:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-29 8:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-09-29 16:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-29 17:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-30 10:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-30 17:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-30 19:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-04 12:31 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-04 13:06 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-04 14:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-05 3:15 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-10-04 15:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-05 3:16 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-10-05 5:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-05 11:24 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-05 15:46 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-05 15:54 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-10-05 16:09 ` Davide Libenzi
2005-10-05 16:15 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-10-05 16:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-05 16:28 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-10-05 17:29 ` Davide Libenzi
2005-10-05 19:17 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-05 20:29 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-10-06 9:05 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-06 10:07 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-07 12:44 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-07 15:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-07 20:54 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-07 21:22 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-07 21:29 ` Chuck Lever
2005-10-07 21:39 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-08 16:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-08 17:38 ` Elfyn McBratney
2005-10-08 17:43 ` Elfyn McBratney
2005-10-08 18:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-08 18:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-08 19:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-08 21:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-08 22:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-10 18:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-10 19:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-10 19:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-10 19:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-10 20:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-10 20:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-10 20:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-10 20:27 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-10-08 18:49 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-09 20:40 ` Commit text BEFORE the dashes (Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin) Matthias Urlichs
[not found] ` <7vfyrdyre5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
2005-10-07 23:45 ` First cut at git port to Cygwin Alex Riesen
2005-10-08 1:00 ` Elfyn McBratney
2005-10-10 18:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-05 13:16 ` Jonas Fonseca
2005-10-05 13:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-05 15:52 ` [PATCH] Fix symbolic ref validation Jonas Fonseca
2005-10-05 16:54 ` Junio C Hamano
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