Mark Levedahl wrote: > However, I don't understand why git would need to consume its own > output - If named pipes are really needed to use git-svn because > git-svn depends upon git feeding the same git process, then that > package should not be available on cygwin or any other platform that > does not support fifos. This isn't about git-svn but about the svn remote helper. The same considerations would apply to any other foreign repository importer that uses "git fast-import --cat-blob-fd". So I would like to make sure it is at least possible to support such a thing in the Cygwin and mingw ports. > If not, then I don't think the test suite > should require fifos or any other construct with the same git > process feeding itself either, it just blurs the line about what is > actually being tested. I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying Windows users would never want to access Subversion repositories? Thanks, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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