On Nov 6, 2007, at 9:02 AM, Peter Karlsson wrote:
Steffen Prohaska:
Right. The experience should be good if you use binmode.
Shouldn't it be possible to fix this by sprinkling the appropriate
number of "b"s in the parameters to fopen()? Or is it more complicated
than that?
It's more complicated. I tried. But others convinced me that
it's harder than you think. The interfacing with other programs
through shell scripts is one major problem. Another difficulty
is that Cygwin's textmode is deprecated. So, the Cygwin guys
won't help. Search the list archives for more details.
But never use textmode. You'll not get an error right away. At first
git seems to work. But later it reports weird errors. The experience
is really bad. Don't do that.
I got errors almost right away when trying that (I need text mode to
interface with some other programs), so Cygwin-git is a no-go for
me at
the moment.
Same for me. You're welcome to join the msysgit effort ;)
But do not expect too much from my side. For me the only
priority is to get the core git commands running. Everything
that is needed to support a git-only workflow has top priority.
Everything else has lowest priority. I'll refuse to put work
into the scripts interfacing with other SCMs and I'll refuse
to work on things needed to setup a git 'server', like git-shell.
Of course, mixing msys-Git with Cygwin and ActiveState Perl
is also an interesting experience, to say the least :-)
I can imagine that. If you already have some new insights how
to handle such a situration it would be interesting if you
could share some of them.
Steffen
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