Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] mingw: rename and open fixes

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2025 18:29:47 -0700

"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
writes:

> The recent change of mingw_rename() to use POSIX semantics had quite a bit
> of fall-out, breaking in pre-Windows 11 setups that use ReFS, and in a
> different way on Windows Server 2016.
>
> While at it, this patch series also upstreams two related patches that
> matured in Git for Windows for long enough already.

Thanks.  What a great timing, just before the -rc0 preview release
;-)

Will apply directly to 'master'.

> Johannes Schindelin (3):
>   mingw: drop Windows 7-specific work-around
>   mingw_rename: support ReFS on Windows 2022
>   mingw: support Windows Server 2016 again
>
> Matthias Aßhauer (1):
>   mingw_open_existing: handle directories better
>
>  Documentation/config/core.adoc |  6 ---
>  compat/mingw.c                 | 93 +++++++++-------------------------
>  2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: 866e6a391f466baeeb98bc585845ea638322c04b
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1948%2Fdscho%2Fmingw-rename-and-open-fixes-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1948/dscho/mingw-rename-and-open-fixes-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1948