MinGW port usable

I'd like to point interested parties to the MinGW port at

 git://repo.or.cz/git/mingw.git

which is now in a usable state, methinks. I'm using it with git-gui and gitk on a (almost) production repository.

The README.MinGW at http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mingw.git?a=blob_plain;f=README.MinGW;hb=master gives an overview on the state. The transfer via native git protocol does not work and cannot be made working without major surgery(*). Theoretically, using netcat (nc) as GIT_PROXY_COMMAND should work, but not in my setup for some reason that I still do not know.

(*) The reason is that on Windows read() and write() cannot operate on descriptors created by socket(). A work-around is to implement a (threaded) proxy, but that's almost the same as if netcat were used as GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.

Junio, you may like to cherry-pick these two non-critical commits from my repository:

8c8bb94f94f1d972c7ffadda4744cf343fac6f34 gitk: Use peek-remote instead of ls-remote. 46580d2192d79a469f8b40fc1081db9116ad5517 Add a missing fork() error check.

-- Hannes