[Monotone-devel] Re: Sync Issue

[Lapo Luchini]

Marcin W. Dąbrowski wrote:
> > If that is what you are using, switch to Cygwin monotone,
> > if only for those sync operations. That's what I use, and
> > it works reliably.
>
> Why one should use two binaries of one app which should work the
> same on every platform?

They are not really "two binaries for the same platform", as Cygwin is 
kind of a different platform than plain Win32 even tough if they execute 
on the same "host", just as a Linux/amd64 can execute Linux/i386 code 
but it's a different platform anyway (and executing i386 code on amd64 
OSes can often be a solution while a 64bit-related bug gets corrected 
upstream).

Regarding monotone they have some quite different semantics: for one, 
mtn/cygwin uses $HOME while mtn/win32 uses "some strange thing in 
Document&apps folder" (does my bias show? :P), and mtn/cygwin can use 
FIFOs as emulated by cygwin, and so on...

About why you should be forced to "swap" between the two, well... it's a 
bug, and should not be necessary, that's simply a work-around that can 
be used right now.

  Lapo