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

Hi,

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Stefano Spinucci wrote:

On 12/17/06, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

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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