Hi Adam, On 2015-08-09 04:01, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > I do not see any difference between the situation here and the situation > for MinGW, which is fundamentally a Cygwin fork, but which already has > this build option set for it in config.mak.uname. This is incorrect. MinGW is distinctly *not* a Cygwin fork. MinGW means "Minimal GNU on Windows" and that in turn means that it provides an environment to build executables that purely use the Win32 API. Read: no POSIX emulation whatsoever. Most notably, MinGW programs cannot use fork(2); It is simply unavailable. What you *probably* meant is that Git for Windows relies on MSys2 for its shell and Perl scripts, and that MSys2 in turn is a fork of Cygwin. That affects *only* the scripts, though; Git itself (as in `git.exe`) is still a pure MinGW program (and as a consequence, is quite a bit faster than Cygwin Git, at the price of certain quirks that Cygwin Git does not suffer). >> We've gotten a lot of users on the list who ask why their Git >> directories on shared drives aren't working (or are broken in some way). >> Since I don't use Windows, let me ask: does the Cygwin DLL handle >> link(2) properly on shared drives, and if not, would this patch help it >> do so? I can imagine that perhaps SMB doesn't support the necessary >> operations to make a POSIX link(2) work properly. > > I'd need to go back to the Cygwin list to get a definite answer, but as > I understand it, yes, this is is exactly the problem -- quoting Corinna, > one of the Cygwin project leads, "The MS NFS is not very reliable in > keeping up with changes to metadata." > > We have verified that setting `core.createobject rename` resolves the > problem for people who are seeing it, which very strongly implies that > this build option would solve the problem similarly, but would fix it > for all users, not just those who spend enough time investigating the > problem to find that setting. >From my experience, it appears that providing Corinna Vinschen (or better put: the Cygwin developers in general) with a sound patch gets things fixed pretty timely. And since `core.createObject = rename` seems to work around the problem, it should be possible to patch the Cygwin runtime accordingly. Sure, it will take a little investigation *what* code should be changed, and how, but the obvious benefit to *all* Cygwin applications should make that effort worth your while. Please note that Cygwin's source code itself is in Git now, too: https://cygwin.com/git.html Ciao, Johannes -- 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