On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 04:47:46PM -0400, Mark Levedahl wrote:
> On 08/07/2015 04:30 PM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> >When generating build options for Cygwin, enable
> >OBJECT_CREATION_USES_RENAMES.  This is necessary to use Git on Windows
> >shared directories, and is already enabled for the MinGW and plain
> >Windows builds.
> I've been supporting use of git on cygwin since about 2008, this issue has
> never risen that I know. Whatever issue is being patched around here, if
> truly repeatable, should be handled by the cygwin dll as that code is
> focused on providing full linux compatibility. If git on linux does need
> this patch, git on cygwin should not, either. So, I vote against this.

We've gotten a lot of users on the list who ask why their Git
directories on shared drives aren't working (or are broken in some way).
Since I don't use Windows, let me ask: does the Cygwin DLL handle
link(2) properly on shared drives, and if not, would this patch help it
do so?  I can imagine that perhaps SMB doesn't support the necessary
operations to make a POSIX link(2) work properly.
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