Re: 'git status' is not read-only fs friendly

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 10, 2007, 20:36 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702102135080.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wkykmj1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> About "Cygwin and Linux NTFS seem to disagree with lstat(2)"
> problem.  Is it really what is happening here?

Probably. AFAIR Windows lacks some important information, which is filled with zeroes by Cygwin.

Note that this problem already arises between Cygwin and MinGW, and it cannot be fixed: Cygwin _has_ symlinks, while MinGW has _not_.

Ciao, Dscho

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