Re: git on sparc64?

[Holger Weiß <lists%jhweiss.de@localhost>]

* Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> [2010-03-30 17:54]:
> I built git from pkgsrc on netbsd-5/sparc64.  I get errors when trying
> to clone a repository (that I can clone fine and pull from and also push
> to on i386).  It seems unlikely that there are endian/word-size issues
> in Git, but I thought I'd ask if anyone else has tried this or is having
> trouble.

It is an endian issue, but it only shows up on systems which define a
bswap32(3) macro.  I sent a patch to the Git list yesterday:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/143453

I'll submit a PR, too.

Holger