From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Visher Subject: Re: Using Git with windows Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:38:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Tariq Hassanen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 06 15:40:39 2009 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 1LfbE5-0003Gm-EY for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:40:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754877AbZCFOjI (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:39:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754298AbZCFOjG (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:39:06 -0500 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.241]:45127 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754395AbZCFOjF (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:39:05 -0500 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c2so284578anc.1 for ; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:39:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=uBbZdsgvLSGhTHDoxlh5WNYdDlzx3TkNACUtil3lM4k=; b=hYkjrT3mDW501HGlzvQhsEcUvogsF+P2PaOf3eMbuAgqKp0dtcZX3eJuChEznZIvaa eFH1XxEexY194nSEd6oXpQZrgmrMKXuLBdYp6wNms5E3bKGZR7qBiIYVsXsmm5e6dzy4 WiT3vJGTTGl1OT2A9PHiLOftBxqYtqgWBRYsg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=VKHBIM5XveVCFRhIipqUKselvEJQj8sKdh5fJR3Od1Iry2QLcBGhxIFfk0Ll/QGSUf frsGRn1co0M5FNi42Ecm4uichAPZ1IB1L+w1266vtH0VtAWHfYrMSlR0PESYTC6OZOby RKqZNpuJUl7TM+DPGTclnt7DS5tONw/o5c7aY= Received: by 10.100.126.15 with SMTP id y15mr1843346anc.38.1236350339395; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:38:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Tariq Hassanen wrote: > I know there are some ports for it on windows such as msysGit and it > can also be done on Cygwin. IMHO, Git under cygwin's pretty nice. I tried using MSysGit as well and didn't feel like it was quite as good as just building Git under cygwin. I also run Git on an Mac at home and while it's clearly faster, Git under Cygwin still beats the pants off of SVN under Cygwin. > But is there a way around this if i run a linux VM with Git running > and mount a windows ntfs partition ? Would this really be faster? I don't have a whole lot of experience with virtualization, but isn't Cygwin 'basically' doing this already? I mean, it's attempting to emulate linux system calls so that linux software can be recompiled to run on o a Windows box. > Any ideas? Or am i best sticking with SVN until the ports are mature enough? > Tariq I wouldn't bother waiting. Git is plenty mature on Windows, either via msys or via Cygwin. There's no real reason to delay. :) -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://burningones.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail