Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin

> >Still does not work for me. I cannot isolate the problem out of git,
> >but at the moment the only way for me to make commit_index_file to work
> >is to put unlink(indexfile) before rename(cf->lockfile, indexfile).
> >
> >For everyone interested, I attach cygwin's strace output here.
> 
> I'm sorry that I missed this thread.  I'm usually pretty alert to the word
> "cygwin" showing up in a subject.
> 
> I'll go back and read the archives to catch up but, at the risk of
> making an observation that has already been made, under windows you
> can't always rename a file that is open.  Is that what's happening here?
>