Re: problem with git clone on cygwin

From: Stefan-W. Hahn <stefan.hahn@s-hahn.de>
Date: Jan 7, 2007, 11:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20070107112107.GD9909@scotty.home>
In-Reply-To: <17824.53141.207000.935133@lapjr.intranet.kiel.bmiag.de>

Also sprach Juergen Ruehle am Sun, 07 Jan 2007 at 11:46:45 +0100:

> Stefan-W. Hahn writes:

> cygwin. But my question was meant more along the lines of 'could you
> give some examples of applications that do not work with 1.5.22 or
> later and prevent you from upgrading your installed cygwin version'.

Non, its just the above metioned incompatibility between the cygwin versions.

> If there are serious showstoppers it would probably be a good idea to
> go the route Shawn outlined to retain compatibility with earlier
> cygwin releases. Otherwise we'll just keep recommending an upgrade:-)

I sent out a patch using mmap() instead of pread() if configured.

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