Hi, On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Alex Riesen: > > > It is not Cygwin really. It's windows. You can't rename or delete an > > open or mmapped file in that thing. > > And GIT's workaround is to read the whole file into memory and close > it after that? Uh-oh. If you have a better idea (which does not make git source code ugly), go ahead, write a patch. But note that we usually use the whole contents of the mmap()ed file anyway. Ciao, Dscho - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html