From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:26:27 GMT
Subject: Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD
Message-ID: <7vir7r56cs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <07BB2580-4406-496F-8ACE-F6A03D1687BE@zib.de>

Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:

> The discussion below basically leads to two questions:
>
> Is there any chance that git can be ported to cygwin's textmode?
>
> Is there any chance that patches would be accepted that try to
> do so? Even if they add "b" to fopen and O_BINARY to open, which
> both are useless on Unix?
>
> Junio, Linus?

Hopefully fopen() would not barf upon seeing "b", and O_BINARY
can be ifdefed to 0 on platforms where it is not applicable and
or'ed in to the flags.  As long as they can be proven to be
useful on Cygwin, I do not see an issue.