Re: Windows support

["Stephen Cuppett" <cuppett@gmail.com>]

On 7/25/07, Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:

> Is it just that windows developer hate cygwin because it's to
> complex to install or is there any severe limitation?
> functionality? stability? performance?

I actually have no problems with cygwin and find it works pretty well
with git repositories.  Starting the xserver to run git-gui is pretty
annoying though.  Windows-based development teams are going to expect
easy access to those kinds of tooling.  Otherwise, the champion will
be pushing a type of workflow change that would hinder adoption anyway
and leave a sour taste for a long time.

In addition, performance is atrocious.  In my particular case I have
an older P4 running F7 and a newer machine running Windows and cygwin.
 On a pserver based cvsimport of a large, enterprise project, Linux
was able to generate the full history in 4 hours, cygwin took 3 and a
half days.  When I sync up every now and then, typical times for
windows are 25 minutes and Linux is around 4.  That should give you an
idea of what kind of multiplier we are talking about.

I don't know if the performance problems are cygwin or not.  More
knowledgeable people might be able to answer, it's just what I'm
observing right now.  It could be more fundamental to the types of
access being performed en masse on inode-based versus NTFS systems.