Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:39:12 +0100 (BST)
> > From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> > cc: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>, raa.lkml@gmail.com, ae@op5.se, 
> >     tsuna@lrde.epita.fr, git@vger.kernel.org
> > 
> > > As I wrote in my other message, using native APIs improves 
> > > performance by at least a factor of two.
> > 
> > Somehow this does not appeal to my "portability is good" side.  You 
> > know, if we had to do such trickeries for every platform we support, 
> > we'd soon be as big as Subversion *cough*.
> 
> You have to decide whether you care about performance enough to do
> that or not.

Yes, I know that we'll have to use more special casing of Windows for 
performance reasons.  I was only lamenting that it would not need to be 
that way.  Just ignore me.

> > For me, this is the most annoying part about programming Win32.  They 
> > went out of their way to make it incompatible with everything else, 
> > and as a consequence it is a PITA to maintain crossplatform programs.
> 
> Portability is a two-way street.  A program that wasn't designed to be 
> portable will by definition be hard to port.  To me, what's annoying is 
> a program that was designed around a single-OS model of APIs.

You're obviously not talking about git here.

> > Explorer often accesses files it should not lock.  On the machine I 
> > test msysGit on, this is the most common reason for a test case to 
> > fail: it cannot delete the temporary directory, which _should_ be 
> > unused.  Indeed, a second after that, it _is_ unused.
> 
> One more reason not to launch Explorer, if you ask me ;-)  But maybe you 
> have valid reasons to do that.  All I can say is that I never saw such 
> problems, but then I don't usually run programs that rewrite files in a 
> frenzy.

Funny.  Last time I checked the toolbar went away, as well as the desktop, 
when I killed explorer.exe.

Ciao,
Dscho