From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:01:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Common setting for interoperability repo across windows and unix?
Message-ID: <20091104230122.GK10505@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <32541b130911041459y7a2201a3r18601522187891f2@mail.gmail.com>

Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.