From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 04:30:32 GMT
Subject: Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin
Message-ID: <7v64skpkbb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <433B3B10.5050407@zytor.com>

"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.