From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: newsgroups@catchall.shelter13.net
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Deciding between Git/Mercurial
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:31:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b0909271231u54fbe035n3ce2503237b5ebf3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h9odqq$ig9$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 21:18, Anteru <newsgroups@catchall.shelter13.net> wrote:
> Don't get me wrong with Git+msysgit on Windows, the point is simply if
> we switch to git, can we expect that Windows will be supported for the
> foreseeable future or is it possible that git may simply drop Windows
> support completely? ...
Despite what I said, this is very unlikely (sadly). There are active developers
whose professional life happens in Windows. Besides, the project is open-
source and no one can stop you from taking over the maintainership of a port.
> As I said, I'm happy with using msysgit, but I cannot find any roadmap
There isn't any. Roadmaps are for projects with a guaranteed end of life :-p
> etc. which helps me to determine how git and Windows is going to
> continue (for instance, I can find some complaints that git's
> performance is bad on Windows due to cygwin's fork()/exec(), is this
> likely to get ever "fixed"?
Not likely. OTOH, msysGIT does not have that part of performance problem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-27 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-27 12:24 Deciding between Git/Mercurial Anteru
2009-09-27 18:01 ` Robin Rosenberg
2009-09-27 18:10 ` Anteru
2009-09-27 18:44 ` Alex Riesen
2009-09-27 18:51 ` Mark Struberg
2009-09-27 19:18 ` Anteru
2009-09-27 19:31 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2009-09-27 19:34 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2009-09-27 18:55 ` Pascal Obry
2009-10-22 8:01 ` Martin Langhoff
2009-09-28 8:36 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-28 8:42 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-09-28 10:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-09-28 11:01 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-28 11:17 ` Bruce Stephens
2009-09-30 11:14 ` Matthias Andree
2009-09-28 11:32 ` Dilip M
2009-09-28 20:54 ` Damien Wyart
2009-09-28 21:09 ` Steven Noonan
2009-09-28 21:33 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-28 23:56 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2009-09-29 0:01 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-29 7:44 ` Mike Ralphson
2009-09-29 8:21 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-09-29 8:22 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-28 23:11 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-29 0:32 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-29 6:32 ` Anteru
2009-09-29 18:44 ` Leo Razoumov
2009-09-29 18:58 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-29 19:55 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-09-30 0:49 ` Leo Razoumov
2009-09-30 6:28 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-09-30 9:17 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-09-30 11:09 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-29 1:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-09-29 8:44 ` Daniele Segato
2009-09-29 8:54 ` Dilip M
2009-09-30 11:09 ` Matthias Andree
2009-09-30 22:05 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-10-22 2:38 ` Dilip M
2009-10-22 6:50 ` Anteru
2009-10-22 7:12 ` Dilip M
2009-10-22 7:35 ` Anteru
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