From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 05:07:10 GMT
Subject: Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin
Message-ID: <433B767E.7050704@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v64skpkbb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> I just sent out "The other side of Linus' symbolic refs" patch,
> saying that Cygwin capable of doing symlink would probably made
> it irrelevant.  But it may not be a waste after all, considering
> what you said above.
> 

After looking at it some more, what Samba does when talking to a host 
that doesn't support Unix extensions is that it simply resolves the 
symlink, in effect turning it into a hard link.  That might be all git 
needs.  The reverse still doesn't work, though.

	-hpa