Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD

From: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 7, 2007, 17:42 UTC
Message-ID: <30e4a070708071042g5623cb7ak724a8b8e588bd1da@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <66DD7425-6073-4CA8-BF01-BF07213A4804@zib.de>

On 8/7/07, Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:

>
> My question is, is there any chance to handle the shell
> activity by setting the right CYGWIN options?
>

See my other message: text mounts are best considered obsolescent if not deprecated, and that mode is definitely not actively developed. There are just too many loopholes with forks and pipes to reliably "do the right thing."

Your suggested tests for non-binary mode mounts (properly #ifdef'd for Cygwin, possibly only enabled if specifically configured in) are a reasonable idea.

Mark

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