From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shawn Pearce Subject: Re: windows problems summary Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:51:46 -0500 Message-ID: <20060302165146.GA18929@spearce.org> References: <81b0412b0603020649u99a2035i3b8adde8ddce9410@mail.gmail.com> <20060302152329.GH2781@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <81b0412b0603020735j603b3518ob5e27a02c531093a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christopher Faylor , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 02 17:52:34 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FEr23-0006RT-Jk for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:52:05 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751294AbWCBQv7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:51:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751360AbWCBQv7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:51:59 -0500 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:10445 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751349AbWCBQv7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:51:59 -0500 Received: from cpe-72-226-60-173.nycap.res.rr.com ([72.226.60.173] helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1FEr1k-0001Ta-1m; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:51:44 -0500 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DF6FF20FBBF; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:51:46 -0500 (EST) To: Alex Riesen Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0603020735j603b3518ob5e27a02c531093a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Alex Riesen wrote: > On 3/2/06, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > > Are we *really* contemplating porting git to native Windows? > > > > Actually, I wasn't thinking about that when I was writing that mail, > but ... why not? > Cygwin makes syscalls many times slower, git is very slow on > windows, users (well, I) want it faster, so if the needed api subset > can be narrowed down to a reasonable amount of work - I think > I'd give the idea a try. I'd certainly appreciate faster response times from GIT on Windows. Hell, I'd port GIT myself and cross my fingers that Junio, et. al. would be open to accepting the changes into the tree. But right now I don't really have a Windows development environment available to me that I can hack on releasable changes from (damn lawyers and those agreements about things on work computers being owned by work). If I get time I'll try rebuilding a system at home that is currently offline due to failed disk as a Windows development environment. -- Shawn.