From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 00:59:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test-lib.sh - cygwin does not have usable FIFOs
Message-ID: <20130714005912.GB21033@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <51D93164.8030202@web.de>

Torsten Bögershausen wrote:

> Disabling PIPE under cygwin seems to be the right thing to do,
> or do I miss something ?

If fifos don't work on Cygwin, disabling that test prerequisite
is defintely the right thing to do.  I was taking the opportunity to
find out whether and how git could be tweaked to avoid needing fifos
when setting pipes up in scripts.

Jonathan