From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:59:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Common setting for interoperability repo across windows and unix?
Message-ID: <32541b130911041459y7a2201a3r18601522187891f2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <S0ax5AE0Xf8KFwjv@thewolery.demon.co.uk>

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Anthony W. Youngman
<wol@thewolery.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 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