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| author |  https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkRITTYYsN0TFKN7G5sZ6BWGZOTQ88Pz4s <Zoltn@web> | 2012-05-15 00:14:10 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2012-05-15 00:14:10 +0000 |
| commit | b261d09637a3c128a636a7b6741615b5d47b90f1 (patch) | |
| tree | 751e2c64f7f5e15f4b824b9efb595402397ce5de | |
| parent | 2701800cda086782f40dd615c23d605667b8a81b (diff) | |
Added a comment: cygwin
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diff --git a/doc/todo/windows_support/comment_1_3cc26ad8101a22e95a8c60cf0c4dedcc._comment b/doc/todo/windows_support/comment_1_3cc26ad8101a22e95a8c60cf0c4dedcc._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..fd5b6f5cd --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/windows_support/comment_1_3cc26ad8101a22e95a8c60cf0c4dedcc._comment @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkRITTYYsN0TFKN7G5sZ6BWGZOTQ88Pz4s" + nickname="Zoltán" + subject="cygwin" + date="2012-05-15T00:14:08Z" + content=""" +What about [Cygwin](http://cygwin.com/)? It emulates POSIX fairly well under Windows (including signals, forking, fs (also things like /dev/null, /proc), unix file permissions), has all standard gnu utilities. It also emulates symlinks, but they are unfortunately incompatible with NTFS symlinks introduced in Vista [due to some stupid restrictions on Windows](http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-10/msg00756.html). + +If git-annex could be modified to not require symlinks to work, the it would be a pretty neat solution (and you get a real shell, not some command.com on drugs (aka cmd.exe)) +"""]] |