From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:36:31 GMT
Subject: Re: master has some toys
Message-ID: <81b0412b0511170236r28572db9i84dc271700ded79a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vy83ny450.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 11/17/05, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> > cygwin is completely broken. Still debugging, but it looks like the
> > old "windows can't unlink/rename open files" problem.
>
> Ouch.  Sorry, and thanks for reporting.

As it turned out, not the git.c is guilty, but the missing
NO_MMAP=YesPlease in Cygwin section. I had it for a long time and
accidentally removed by the recent pull. BTW, I couldn't find nowhere
on original branch. Was it never submitted?

> Ideally I should get a cygwin environment myself, but for that
> first I need to procure Windows box.  Or does cygwin run on
> Wine, and if so is cygwin running on Wine a good enough
> approximation of the real thing?

I don't know. One should try real hard to create as much junk as there is.