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Re: linux-2.6 clone with CygWin git

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BDBrian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
Date
Nov 9, 2007, 21:24 UTC
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[ Please note, it's spelled "Cygwin" not "CygWin". ]
Medve Emilian wrote:
> Can somebody please double-check this scenario for me just to validate
> that this happens only due to some particular factors combination on my
> box?

As others have pointed out, this is not a git issue -- you'd have run into the same problem with a simple tarball of the kernel source because of the filesystem case insensitivity. Cygwin provides managed mounts to work around this Win32 limitation, at the cost of non-Cygwin apps seeing uglified filenames and a decreased effective maximum path length due to the mangling.

Brian
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  1. Medve EmilianNov 9, 2007
  2. Andreas EricssonNov 9, 2007
  3. Simon SasburgNov 9, 2007
  4. David BrownNov 9, 2007
  5. Pascal ObryNov 9, 2007
  6. Andreas EricssonNov 10, 2007
  7. Brian DessentNov 9, 2007

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