From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:07:10 -0700 Message-ID: <433B767E.7050704@zytor.com> References: <433B3B10.5050407@zytor.com> <7v64skpkbb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 29 07:08:29 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EKqe1-0008JD-Q9 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 07:07:46 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751199AbVI2FH3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:07:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751201AbVI2FH3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:07:29 -0400 Received: from paleosilicon.orionmulti.com ([209.128.68.66]:41443 "EHLO paleosilicon.orionmulti.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751199AbVI2FH2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:07:28 -0400 X-Envelope-From: hpa@zytor.com Received: from [172.27.0.18] (c-67-180-239-42.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.239.42]) (authenticated bits=0) by paleosilicon.orionmulti.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j8T57BJv015305 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:07:11 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7v64skpkbb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on paleosilicon.orionmulti.com X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87, clamav-milter version 0.87 on paleosilicon.orionmulti.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" 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