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Re: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers

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Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date
Jun 28, 2005, 15:34 UTC
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<20050628151522.GO5992MdfPADPa@garage.linux.student.kuleuven.ac.be>

Dear diary, on Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 05:15:22PM CEST, I got a letter where Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> told me that...

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> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 05:07:52PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > Dear diary, on Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 03:57:00PM CEST, I got a letter
> > where Kevin Smith <yarcs@qualitycode.com> told me that...
> > > - Can run on (native) MS Windows
> > >   (necessary for me because I often work on cross-platform projects)
> > 
> > I'd expect everything to work fine with Cygwin (or with only minor
> > problems easy to fix) or just any working bash + GNU coreutils
> > installation. Any issue with that?
> 
> The code is full of Unixisms.  You'd almost think that the authors
> of git have some kind of affinity towards Unix.

Ah. Well, I was speaking just of Cogito and didn't realize you might want git too so that you can actually do anything with Cogito then. ;-)

> read-cache.c:376: warning: implicit declaration of function `mmap'

Well, I'm actually not very clueful about MS Windows environment, but doesn't it provide any POSIX API? You might have more luck with that. Or I guess it should work on Cygwin.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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  7. Dave JonesJun 25, 2005
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  15. Linus TorvaldsJun 23, 2005
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  18. Jeff GarzikJun 23, 2005
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  20. Greg KHJun 23, 2005
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  22. Greg KHJun 23, 2005
  23. Jeff GarzikJun 23, 2005
  24. Petr BaudisJun 23, 2005
  25. Martin LanghoffJun 23, 2005
  26. Vojtech PavlikJun 23, 2005
  27. Linus TorvaldsJun 22, 2005
  28. Jeff GarzikJun 23, 2005
  29. Linus TorvaldsJun 23, 2005
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  31. Linus TorvaldsJun 23, 2005
  32. Linus TorvaldsJun 23, 2005
  33. Jeff GarzikJun 23, 2005
  34. Linus TorvaldsJun 23, 2005
  35. Adam KropelinJun 23, 2005
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  37. Jeff GarzikJun 23, 2005
  38. Linus TorvaldsJun 23, 2005
  39. Miles BaderJun 23, 2005
  40. Jeff GarzikJun 23, 2005
  41. Linus TorvaldsJun 23, 2005
  42. Anton AltaparmakovJun 23, 2005
  43. Daniel BarkalowJun 23, 2005
  44. Dave AirlieJun 23, 2005
  45. Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackersMatt Mackall, Jun 23, 2005
  46. Petr BaudisJun 24, 2005
  47. Christopher LiJun 24, 2005
  48. Petr BaudisJun 28, 2005
  49. Andrew ThompsonJun 28, 2005
  50. Petr BaudisJun 28, 2005
  51. Matt MackallJun 28, 2005
  52. Kyle MoffettJun 28, 2005
  53. SeanJun 28, 2005
  54. Matt MackallJun 28, 2005
  55. SeanJun 28, 2005
  56. Kyle MoffettJun 28, 2005
  57. Matt MackallJun 28, 2005
  58. SeanJun 28, 2005
  59. Kyle MoffettJun 28, 2005
  60. SeanJun 28, 2005
  61. Kyle MoffettJun 29, 2005
  62. SeanJun 29, 2005
  63. Kyle MoffettJun 29, 2005
  64. Vojtech PavlikJun 29, 2005
  65. Matt MackallJun 28, 2005
  66. Thomas Arendsen HeinJun 29, 2005
  67. Andrea ArcangeliJun 24, 2005
  68. Theodore Ts'oJun 24, 2005
  69. Paolo CiarrocchiJun 24, 2005
  70. Christopher LiJun 24, 2005
  71. Kevin SmithJun 24, 2005
  72. Matt MackallJun 24, 2005
  73. Petr BaudisJun 28, 2005
  74. Sven VerdoolaegeJun 28, 2005
  75. Petr BaudisJun 28, 2005
  76. Cygwin and Native MS Windows (was: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers)Kevin Smith, Jun 28, 2005
  77. Cogito vs. Git (was: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers)Kevin Smith, Jun 28, 2005
  78. Petr BaudisJun 28, 2005
  79. Matthias UrlichsJun 24, 2005
  80. Linus TorvaldsJun 24, 2005
  81. John W. LinvilleJun 24, 2005
  82. Jeff GarzikJun 24, 2005
  83. Daniel BarkalowJun 24, 2005
  84. Should "git-read-tree -m -u" delete files?Junio C Hamano, Jun 24, 2005
  85. Joel BeckerJun 24, 2005
  86. Kyle MoffettJun 24, 2005
  87. Pavel MachekJun 27, 2005
  88. Kyle MoffettJun 27, 2005
  89. Matt MackallJun 27, 2005
  90. Benjamin LaHaiseJun 27, 2005
  91. Matt MackallJun 27, 2005
  92. Ed TomlinsonJun 27, 2005
  93. Amin AzezJul 8, 2005
  94. Amin AzezJul 11, 2005

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