From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:36:33 GMT
Subject: Re: 'git status' is not read-only fs friendly
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