Re: comparing file contents in is_exact_match?

From: Alex Riesen <fork0@t-online.de>
Date: 2006-07-17 08:36:07
Yakov Lerner, Sun, Jul 16, 2006 17:03:49 +0200:
> Cygwin has mmap. But cygwin's mmap() not good enough for git.
> What happens is that git does rename() when target file has active mmap().
> In cygwin, this makes rename() to fail. This is what makes cygwin's
> mmap unusable for git. (BTW for read-only git access, mmap() will work
> on cygwin, for what I saw. But attempts to modify index will break).

It is not Cygwin really. It's windows. You can't rename or delete an
open or mmapped file in that thing.

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