From d72b85d43738e927475827fd8ed48822d90cae07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 15:55:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] update

---
 doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn b/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn
index b8a4adcdd1..b0a3eae583 100644
--- a/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn
@@ -1,6 +1,16 @@
 The git-annex Windows port is beta, but rapidly becoming polished and
 usable!
 
+## do we need this port anymore?
+
+See <http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html>
+
+If windows has transparent support for running linux executables, and those
+executables can access files in "." which are on the windows system, then
+you could just use this to run linux git-annex on windows. No port needed.
+
+That would be great!
+
 ## status
 
 * There can be problems when the git-annex repository is in a deep