Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > > On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Alex Riesen wrote: > >> So that Cygwin port can continue work around its supporting >> library and get access to its faked file attributes. >> >> Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- > > [patch not inlined: therefore you'll have to guess what I am referring to] > > It seems quite wrong to define something for other platforms when only > Cygwin is affected. > > I'd rather just disable WIN32_STAT for Cygwin, because otherwise, we will > keep running into issues. I am inclined to agree with this. Back when Cygwin was the only choice, it was a way to bring benefit of git to folks who have to work on Windows, but with the recent advances in msysgit, probably Cygwin port should return to a role more in line with the overall Cygwin theme of bringing the more POSIXy sanity into Windows world. I personally see a Cygwin port as a vehicle for people who care about having a POSIXly-correct world where files have executable bits and lines are terminated with LF on Windows. If you want to have a system that is closer to Window's world view, there is (or will be, as msysgit is still officially marked as alpha) a viable alternative, and the current "selective cheating" Cygwin port does may benefit nobody. But I do not work on Windows myself, so please take this only as a mere uninformed opinion, nothing more. -- 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
