From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:41:32 GMT
Subject: Re: comparing file contents in is_exact_match?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607171439270.29667@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <87d5c4ajlu.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>

Hi,

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Florian Weimer wrote:

> * Alex Riesen:
> 
> > It is not Cygwin really. It's windows. You can't rename or delete an
> > open or mmapped file in that thing.
> 
> And GIT's workaround is to read the whole file into memory and close
> it after that?  Uh-oh.

If you have a better idea (which does not make git source code ugly), go 
ahead, write a patch.

But note that we usually use the whole contents of the mmap()ed file 
anyway.

Ciao,
Dscho