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| author |  http://joeyh.name/ <http://joeyh.name/@web> | 2013-06-30 17:58:08 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2013-06-30 17:58:08 +0000 |
| commit | 2495f90394caa649f975f0d78eb1cdfec5cabd7d (patch) | |
| tree | fd30109223dbca74e1f2d419f8acc5b285c6b734 /doc/todo/windows_support | |
| parent | 1793110d4fff1ba28d9e4d45b5f4447bc848c7b0 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/todo/windows_support/comment_8_61214de7d967740d42905f3823ce2f65._comment b/doc/todo/windows_support/comment_8_61214de7d967740d42905f3823ce2f65._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..fe193f7e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/windows_support/comment_8_61214de7d967740d42905f3823ce2f65._comment @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joeyh.name/" + ip="4.154.4.193" + subject="comment 8" + date="2013-06-30T17:58:08Z" + content=""" +It should be easy to fix whatever's wrong the the rsync special remote. Just a matter of debugging that. + +Adding encryption support on Windows is stuck at a roadblock I don't know the way around. To drive gpg, git-annex uses the `--passphrase-fd` option, and sends the \"passphrase\" (really a big block of binary foo!) over a file descriptor of a pipe that it set up. + +Windows, AFAIK, doesn't have file descriptors, or at least there is no equivilant to them that I have access to in the Haskell POSIX compatability layer for Windows. I am reluctant to fall back to using `--passphrase-file` on Windows, since that would be a massive security hole (as would passing the passphrase as a parameter via `--passphrase=`). +"""]] |