From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Stephen Cuppett" Subject: Re: Windows support Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:58:47 -0400 Message-ID: <316a20a40707250958w1fe9f6fdn41d75ca704aeb9cd@mail.gmail.com> References: <693D0FFF-B271-4781-BCE2-3BF00C8BF426@zib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Steffen Prohaska" , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 25 18:58:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IDkCM-0008Fq-Fv for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:58:54 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755682AbXGYQ6u (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:58:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759822AbXGYQ6u (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:58:50 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.181]:32950 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754780AbXGYQ6t (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:58:49 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d32so470480pye for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:58:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Ve9m4J6cxgvGQZvzIz1CdZ434eJyGJzcrzPLvsmrpsnZ5I+fEWirlV7Bz/AOp9e5ViujJ6EV22qOWsiQEifyteKxDnTyXwhnVZJ097ZOBnl8htCvr/Tkmh/5912cp1Ff0oFhmJoXZxmYRSMtOdesWNDJ+ek+ffeZ0YjGG2duISc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hdn2/bDXVLdCNiQXSJbu7E8gG/dipX1MfOKMeiL47kyY2l+qjC8bLUzCWQQlfblMa0FIdw4VPzXGl4qI6u6yBzN4zXYYmV4jFnkhHmFiYIPX73jHZiK0kGUErXpTb/CKFhNDvDAS3FlqIKdt8QcjDp3mrWo1APUreJ0odcjeBPs= Received: by 10.64.179.12 with SMTP id b12mr1482339qbf.1185382727887; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:58:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.47.16 with HTTP; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:58:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <693D0FFF-B271-4781-BCE2-3BF00C8BF426@zib.de> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 7/25/07, Steffen Prohaska 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.