Git for Windows currently supports Vista and above - the AF_UNIX support was only added in Windows 10 1803.
Named pipes are fine, the semantics are basically identical, and you can guarantee there is a separate namespace versus the filesystem (for AF_UNIX, \x00 prefixes work on Linux but not on macOS).
Named pipes are fine, the semantics are basically identical, and you can guarantee there is a separate namespace versus the filesystem (for AF_UNIX, \x00 prefixes work on Linux but not on macOS).