From: Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:32:42 GMT
Subject: Re: comparing file contents in is_exact_match?
Message-ID: <f36b08ee0607171332k1da1ef77j352b31c78039d06c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <17595.48003.145000.414361@lapjr.intranet.kiel.bmiag.de>

On 7/17/06, Juergen Ruehle <j.ruehle@bmiag.de> wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin writes:
>  > > > 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.
>
> On several boxes I've tested the mmap code passes the tests on NTFS.

On me, it failed me on git-apply with more than 1 patches on
the commandline.

git-apply with 1 patch on the commandline passed, with two, failed.

git-apply with two patches on commandline is the simplest
testcase that exposes this problem, AFAIK.

Yakov