From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:10:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Common setting for interoperability repo across windows and unix?
Message-ID: <40aa078e0911041510p645c37c3i238fbf0eb568aba0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091104230122.GK10505@spearce.org>

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > 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.)
>
> git-daemon relies on fork, do work, then later exec.  Windows lacks
> this concept.  Making it hard to port.

Before anyone starts hacking: I've got a working git-daemon on
Windows, based on some old patches from Mike Pape, plus some extending
of the start_async-api. It's still not ready for submission, but I
think I've got the last important technical details nailed down now,
all that is needed is a fair share of clean-up. Hopefully I'll have it
ready for submission during the week-end some time.

-- 
Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund