# FYI: My experiences with cygwin & git

1 messages from 2005-08-19 to 2005-08-19. Participants: Johannes Schindelin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/1593

## Johannes Schindelin, 2005-08-19 15:23

Subject: FYI: My experiences with cygwin & git
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Hi,

I tried to compile & run git on cygwin. Two showstoppers:

	- cygwin does not support IPv6 (yet). Therefore, it does
	  not have getaddrinfo() and friends. (minor showstopper)

	- fork() and mmap() together have problems. This manifests
	  itself in "git-diff-tree -p" not working. (showbomber)

No big problem for me, I only tested cygwin out of curiosity.

Ciao,
Dscho

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