First cut at git port to Cygwin
- From
- H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
- Date
- Sep 29, 2005, 00:53 UTC
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- <433B3B10.5050407@zytor.com>
I have made a first cut at a git port to Cygwin. It looks like the "git-diff-tree -p" problem has been resolved independently, or at least I can't reproduce it on a fresh Cygwin install (running on XP Home), but I have added support for running without the IPv6 and the getaddrinfo() API.
There are still funnies. In particular, Cygwin and Samba handle symlinks differently, so you can't trivially share a repository via Samba. Linus' "symbolic refs" changes should eventually take care of that.
Another funny which I haven't been able to figure out yet is that 'gitk' scrunches all its output up into a few pixels at the top of the window. If I maximize the window, I can manually resize most of the panes and the output looks correct, but the highlighted text in the top panes show up in black on a really really dark blue background and is thus illegible.
I have set up a git-on-Cygwin temporary tree at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git-cygwin.git
-hpa