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Re: Can git be tweaked to work cross-platform, on FAT32?

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Dec 18, 2006, 13:38 UTC
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Hi,
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Stefano Spinucci wrote:
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> On 12/17/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > ...
> > I am sure that there are more problems with it. BTW the problem stems from
> > Windows having _no_ equivalent to fork().
> > ...
> 
> if you are sure that there are more problems with using MMAP, shouldn't 
> NO_MMAP be commented better in the Makefile and in INSTALL, pointing out 
> to use it always on cygwin ???

I argued for that a long time ago, but there were a couple "works-for-me"s and I just shut up.

It could also be the case that for most operations, git became safe over time. For example, my biggest problem was the fork()ed diff in git-log, which was substituted by a non-forking inbuilt diff.

> should I write to the cygwin-apps list asking for a different 
> compilation (with NO_MMAP), or for the majority of the users the 
> standard compilation is a better choice ???

Given that most Windows setups nowadays run on NTFS, I doubt that this is necessary. I use NO_MMAP myself on Windows, just in case, though.

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 12 of 15 in “Can git be tweaked to work cross-platform, on FAT32?”
  1. Florian v. SavignyDec 13, 2006
  2. Johannes SchindelinDec 13, 2006
  3. Martin LanghoffDec 14, 2006
  4. Florian v. SavignyDec 16, 2006
  5. Johannes SchindelinDec 16, 2006
  6. Martin LanghoffDec 17, 2006
  7. Stefano SpinucciDec 17, 2006
  8. Johannes SchindelinDec 17, 2006
  9. Juergen RuehleDec 17, 2006
  10. Johannes SchindelinDec 17, 2006
  11. Stefano SpinucciDec 18, 2006
  12. Johannes SchindelinDec 18, 2006
  13. Juergen RuehleDec 18, 2006
  14. Dan NicholsonDec 19, 2006
  15. David LangDec 19, 2006

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