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From:	Steven Elliot Harris <seharris AT raytheon DOT com>
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Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> writes:

> I think this is how the BitKeeper folks do it, too, FWIW.

For the record, I'm pretty sure they've recently decided to stop doing
this, per this message¹ from Larry McVoy. Note the third paragraph
regarding "future directions." It sounds like they'll play nice
alongside Cygwin, but not be built on top of it.

The last time I tried to install BitKeeper (around October 2003), it
trashed my Cygwin mounts even though I told the installer not to touch
my Cygwin setup, and even then BitKeeper wouldn't run without
crashing. Apparently it wasn't (re)built to handle Cygwin
1.5.x. Sadly, as a result, I've been without BitKeeper on my new
computer.


Footnotes: 
¹ http://www.bitmover.com/pipermail/bitkeeper-users/2003-October/001025.html

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Steven E. Harris


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