[Freemint-list] [MiNT] fVDI in FreeMiNT CVS?

[Alan Hourihane]

On 27/10/16 04:14, Mark Duckworth wrote:
> I am going from memory which doesn't work so well these days, but to the
> best of my recollection the issue is that git hard codes some type in
> the filesystem.  As a result the main issue is that if your repository
> has symbolic links, those are actually created on the mint filesystem as
> fifo's.

The last git version I looked at hardcodes some filesystem types into
the repo.

But they must have sat up and paid attention because I've just looked at
git 2.7.3 and they now do translation if the OS doesn't work with the
sane types.

So Atari compilation of git is now trivial.

Alan.