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Re: Common setting for interoperability repo across windows and unix?

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Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Nov 4, 2009, 23:01 UTC
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<20091104230122.GK10505@spearce.org>
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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> > git-daemon doesn't (currently) work on msysgit. Currently I run git-daemon
> > on my linpus netbook and pull/push from windows.
> 
> I didn't know that.  Windows sockets are mercifully very nearly
> compatible with Linux ones, so hopefully this wouldn't be too hard to
> fix for someone that needs it.  (Not me; I prefer cygwin over msys in
> all cases.)

git-daemon relies on fork, do work, then later exec. Windows lacks this concept. Making it hard to port.

-- 
Shawn.
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Message 5 of 7 in “Common setting for interoperability repo across windows and unix?”
  1. Dilip MNov 3, 2009
  2. Avery PennarunNov 3, 2009
  3. Anthony W. YoungmanNov 4, 2009
  4. Avery PennarunNov 4, 2009
  5. Shawn O. PearceNov 4, 2009
  6. Erik Faye-LundNov 4, 2009
  7. Vietor LiuNov 4, 2009

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