From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:04:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <47125F74.9050600@op5.se> <47126957.1020204@op5.se> <20071014221446.GC2776@steel.home> <471448D0.6080200@op5.se> <20071016155608.GA10603@old.davidb.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Andreas Ericsson , barkalow@iabervon.org, raa.lkml@gmail.com, Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de, tsuna@lrde.epita.fr, git@vger.kernel.org, make-w32@gnu.org To: David Brown X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 16 18:05:04 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 1Ihouj-0003Jw-4q for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:05:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752338AbXJPQEu (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:04:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750858AbXJPQEu (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:04:50 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:44564 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751430AbXJPQEt (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:04:49 -0400 Received: from xanadu.home ([74.56.106.175]) by VL-MO-MR002.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-0.15 (built Feb 9 2007)) with ESMTP id <0JQ00011RHZ83VE0@VL-MO-MR002.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:04:21 -0400 (EDT) X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home In-reply-to: <20071016155608.GA10603@old.davidb.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, David Brown wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 02:25:21AM -0400, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > On the other hand, what packages have 100K files? If there's only one > > -- the Linux kernel -- then I think this kind of performance is for > > all practical purposes unimportant on Windows, because while it is > > reasonable to assume that someone would like to use git on Windows, > > assuming that someone will develop the Linux kernel on Windows is -- > > how should I put it -- _really_ far-fetched ;-) > > Oh, I wish others could think this clearly. Quoting a serious line off of > a task list at an unnamed company: > > - Make Linux kernel compile under windows. > > I don't think it will move past just being a wish list item, but there seem > to be people that think it should be done. Linux is compilable on Windows, and has been for a long time already. With Cygwin it is pretty trivial to do. I prefer native Linux though. Nicolas