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Re: [PATCH 3/3] difftool: Disable --symlinks on cygwin

From
Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 25, 2012, 19:39 UTC
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On 07/25/2012 05:14 AM, David Aguilar wrote:
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> Symlinks are not ubiquitous on Windows so make --no-symlinks the default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
> ---
> I don't have cygwin so I can't verify this one myself.
> Is 'cygwin' really the value of $^O there?
>
Apparently yes:
  $ uname -rso
  CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) Cygwin
  $ perl -e 'print $^O'
  cygwin
Regards,
  Stefano
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Message 5 of 9 in “Incremental updates for da/difftool-updates”
  1. 0/3 Incremental updates for da/difftool-updatesDavid Aguilar, Jul 25, 2012
  2. 1/3 difftool: Handle finding mergetools/ in a path with spacesDavid Aguilar, Jul 25, 2012
  3. 2/3 difftool: Check all return codes from compare()David Aguilar, Jul 25, 2012
  4. 3/3 difftool: Disable --symlinks on cygwinDavid Aguilar, Jul 25, 2012
  5. Stefano LattariniJul 25, 2012
  6. Erik Faye-LundJul 26, 2012
  7. David AguilarJul 26, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 26, 2012
  9. Junio C HamanoJul 25, 2012

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