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[PATCH 3/3] difftool: Disable --symlinks on cygwin

From
David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 25, 2012, 03:14 UTC
Message-ID
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In-Reply-To
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Symlinks are not ubiquitous on Windows so make --no-symlinks the default.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
---
I don't have cygwin so I can't verify this one myself.
Is 'cygwin' really the value of $^O there?
 git-difftool.perl | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/git-difftool.perl b/git-difftool.perl
index 591ee75..10d3d97 100755
--- a/git-difftool.perl
+++ b/git-difftool.perl
@@ -291,7 +291,8 @@ sub main
 		gui => undef,
 		help => undef,
 		prompt => undef,
-		symlinks => $^O ne 'MSWin32' && $^O ne 'msys',
+		symlinks => $^O ne 'cygwin' &&
+				$^O ne 'MSWin32' && $^O ne 'msys',
 		tool_help => undef,
 	);
 	GetOptions('g|gui!' => \$opts{gui},
-- 
1.7.12.rc0.15.g8157c39
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Message 4 of 9 in “Incremental updates for da/difftool-updates”
  1. 0/3 Incremental updates for da/difftool-updatesDavid Aguilar, Jul 25, 2012
  2. 1/3 difftool: Handle finding mergetools/ in a path with spacesDavid Aguilar, Jul 25, 2012
  3. 2/3 difftool: Check all return codes from compare()David Aguilar, Jul 25, 2012
  4. 3/3 difftool: Disable --symlinks on cygwinDavid Aguilar, Jul 25, 2012
  5. Stefano LattariniJul 25, 2012
  6. Erik Faye-LundJul 26, 2012
  7. David AguilarJul 26, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 26, 2012
  9. Junio C HamanoJul 25, 2012

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