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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test-lib.sh - cygwin does not have usable FIFOs
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 17:59:12 -0700
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Torsten B=F6gershausen wrote:

> Disabling PIPE under cygwin seems to be the right thing to do,
> or do I miss something ?

If fifos don't work on Cygwin, disabling that test prerequisite
is defintely the right thing to do.  I was taking the opportunity to
find out whether and how git could be tweaked to avoid needing fifos
when setting pipes up in scripts.

Jonathan