From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:59:30 +0200 Message-ID: <86odezjjv1.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> References: <1192293466.17584.95.camel@homebase.localnet> <1192381040.4908.57.camel@homebase.localnet> <1773C6F0-87BE-4F3C-B68A-171E1F32E242@lrde.epita.fr> <47125F74.9050600@op5.se> <47126957.1020204@op5.se> <20071014221446.GC2776@steel.home> <471448D0.6080200@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 16 15:11:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IhmCx-0003EY-6s for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:11:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757355AbXJPNL3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:11:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753451AbXJPNL3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:11:29 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:49731 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757337AbXJPNL2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:11:28 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ihm8X-0006Zg-Gd for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:07:05 +0000 Received: from pd95b0fdb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([217.91.15.219]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:07:05 +0000 Received: from dak by pd95b0fdb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:07:05 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd95b0fdb.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xefHx/I6X87tFDHkSnAz0sIXq3k= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:29:41 +0100 (BST) >> From: Johannes Schindelin >> >> On Linux, I would have hit Control-C already. Such an operation >> typically takes less than 0.1 seconds. > > We were not comparing Linux with Windows, we were talking about > Windows user experience. On Windows 4 seconds is not too long. If it is accompanied by some animation of papers winging across the screen or a progress bar or similar. Otherwise people might think that Windows crashed and reboot. Anyway, the problem is that 4 seconds for 32K files means 40 seconds (at least) for 320K files. At some point of time, things become really unpleasant. -- David Kastrup