Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] difftool: Disable --symlinks on cygwin

From: Stefano Lattarini <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:39:03 +0200

On 07/25/2012 05:14 AM, David Aguilar wrote:
> Symlinks are not ubiquitous on Windows so make --no-symlinks the default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <[email-masked]>
> ---
> I don't have cygwin so I can't verify this one myself.
> Is 'cygwin' really the value of $^O there?
>
Apparently yes:

  $ uname -rso
  CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) Cygwin
  $ perl -e 'print $^O'
  cygwin

Regards,
  Stefano