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Re: master has some toys

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Nov 17, 2005, 11:22 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0511171216310.29989@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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Hi,
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Alex Riesen wrote:
> 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?

It was not, because someone (Peter?) had success without NO_MMAP=YesPlease on cygwin. So it was decided to keep NO_MMAP an option which has to be provided by the user.

> > 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?

It does not. The problem with mmap is a problem which stems from working around Windows not being POSIX. Also note that the problem goes poof in a gdb session. I tend to think it is a timing problem in conjunction with the (very conservative) Antivirus setting.

Ciao, Dscho

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  5. Karl HasselströmNov 16, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 16, 2005
  7. git-apply: fail if a patch cannot be applied.Junio C Hamano, Nov 16, 2005
  8. master has some toysJunio C Hamano, Nov 17, 2005
  9. Alex RiesenNov 17, 2005
  10. Junio C HamanoNov 17, 2005
  11. Alex RiesenNov 17, 2005
  12. Junio C HamanoNov 17, 2005
  13. John BenesNov 18, 2005
  14. Johannes SchindelinNov 18, 2005
  15. John BenesNov 18, 2005
  16. Junio C HamanoNov 18, 2005
  17. A Large Angry SCMNov 18, 2005
  18. Junio C HamanoNov 18, 2005
  19. Deal with binary diff output from (unknown version of) diffJunio C Hamano, Nov 18, 2005
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  21. John BenesNov 18, 2005
  22. Junio C HamanoNov 18, 2005
  23. John BenesNov 18, 2005
  24. A Large Angry SCMNov 18, 2005
  25. Johannes SchindelinNov 17, 2005
  26. Johannes SchindelinNov 17, 2005
  27. Junio C HamanoNov 17, 2005
  28. Alex RiesenNov 17, 2005
  29. Johannes SchindelinNov 17, 2005
  30. Alex RiesenNov 17, 2005
  31. Junio C HamanoNov 17, 2005
  32. Johannes SchindelinNov 17, 2005
  33. Junio C HamanoNov 18, 2005
  34. timo@dspsrv.comNov 18, 2005
  35. Alex RiesenNov 17, 2005

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