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

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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 4, 2009, 22:59 UTC
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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Anthony W. Youngman <wol@thewolery.demon.co.uk> wrote:

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> In message <32541b130911030733i734b9f6doc366934873bf7713@mail.gmail.com>,
> Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes
>> You can pull from a Windows box by running git-daemon on that box from
>> the command line.  (It's easier than it sounds.)
>
> That presumes you're running Cygwin ...
>
> 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.)

Avery
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  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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