From: "Mark Levedahl" <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
To: "Steffen Prohaska" <prohaska@zib.de>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
"David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org>,
"Torgil Svensson" <torgil.svensson@gmail.com>,
"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:55:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <30e4a070708160455t78eae31cx3e6d3a7203d0b4b8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CDBDF39-F6FB-411D-9691-3146B882B8EC@zib.de>
> Assuming that 'REG' is only available on Windows and has a defined
> meaning seems to be reasonable assumption to me. I don't see the need
> to test which platform the script is running on. Testing if 'REG' is
> available seems to be sufficient.
>
> Steffen
>
I don't think that REG is a a name reserved for use only on Windows
that could never exist on another box. Its meaning is undefined
outside of Windows. Undefined means unreliable and therefore, not
useful as a test to decide what to do on arbitrary platforms. Also, on
Cygwin you would use regtool and parse things differently anyway,
while Cygwin users tend to be educable enough that if they want to use
kdiff or whatever, they'll symlink it or otherwise put it on their
path.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-16 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-07 9:02 git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD Sebastian Schuberth
2007-08-07 11:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-07 12:13 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2007-08-07 13:18 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2007-08-07 14:36 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-07 14:58 ` Brian Downing
2007-08-07 15:27 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2007-08-07 17:11 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-07 17:42 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-07 19:41 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-07 21:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-07 22:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-08 3:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-07 22:46 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-07 22:49 ` [PATCH] cygwin: added fopen "b" and open O_BINARY to support cygwin's textmode Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-07 22:49 ` [PATCH] tests: added d2u to have unix style testfiles even in textmode Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 3:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-08 5:00 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-07 23:20 ` git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 4:25 ` Brian Downing
2007-08-08 5:46 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-07 22:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-08 7:55 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2007-08-08 13:50 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-08 15:51 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 16:41 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-08 17:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-08 19:37 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 20:13 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 20:36 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 23:07 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-09 4:59 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-09 6:01 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-08-09 6:38 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-09 6:47 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-08-09 8:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-09 9:00 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-08-09 10:33 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 21:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-09 6:20 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-10 6:07 ` Torgil Svensson
2007-08-10 7:19 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-10 10:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-10 11:14 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-10 22:31 ` Torgil Svensson
2007-08-11 0:43 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-13 10:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-15 0:04 ` Torgil Svensson
2007-08-15 5:22 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-15 5:30 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-15 5:43 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-15 6:59 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <86k5rx474o.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-08-15 7:38 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-15 12:42 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-15 12:48 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-15 13:06 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-16 0:27 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-16 6:04 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-16 11:55 ` Mark Levedahl [this message]
2007-08-07 15:29 ` Mark Levedahl
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