From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:34:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers
Message-ID: <20050628153450.GE1275@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <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...
> 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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