Re: [PATCH] test-lib.sh - cygwin does not have usable FIFOs

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 14, 2013, 00:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20130714005730.GA21033@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <51DB3A9F.6020504@gmail.com>

Mark Levedahl wrote:

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> However, I don't understand why git would need to consume its own
> output - If named pipes are really needed to use git-svn because
> git-svn depends upon git feeding the same git process, then that
> package should not be available on cygwin or any other platform that
> does not support fifos.

This isn't about git-svn but about the svn remote helper. The same considerations would apply to any other foreign repository importer that uses "git fast-import --cat-blob-fd". So I would like to make sure it is at least possible to support such a thing in the Cygwin and mingw ports.

>                          If not, then I don't think the test suite
> should require fifos or any other construct with the same git
> process feeding itself either, it just blurs the line about what is
> actually being tested.

I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying Windows users would never want to access Subversion repositories?

Thanks, Jonathan