From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: "Torgil Svensson" Subject: Re: cygwin, 44k files: how to commit only index? Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 09:27:46 +0100 Message-ID: References: <81b0412b0612070627r3ff0b394s124d95fbf8084f16@mail.gmail.com> <7vd56vtt2g.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20061207192632.GC12143@spearce.org> <20061207193555.GD12143@spearce.org> <46d6db660612071326m4817165l992e8d6e7bd673c5@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 08:28:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bLnxSGloKS/JddAffz36lIQ5AGZsBqsDFjTXoKhobqsLgDkdfj4bZtBbRGJpTVZDAbeUheMxiPDnIu3VoU4cbs2oXtjvOiDwfrpbU1YDg15Rw8YH2vmU6GmOmWVA4Xtk02ABThj0UjTxNKVFsfh5hn7Lje+CtD6o2X3Wneay+mg= In-Reply-To: <46d6db660612071326m4817165l992e8d6e7bd673c5@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GsxYs-0001F5-6L for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 09:27:58 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936116AbWLII1t (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 03:27:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936120AbWLII1s (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 03:27:48 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.189]:62105 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936116AbWLII1s (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 03:27:48 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o25so1363285nfa for ; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:27:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.27.17 with SMTP id e17mr285935nfj.1165652866762; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:27:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.28.8 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 00:27:46 -0800 (PST) To: "Christian MICHON" Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org On 12/7/06, Christian MICHON wrote: > On 12/7/06, Shawn Pearce wrote: > > Shawn Pearce wrote: > > > Its Cygwin/NTFS. lstat() is slow. readdir() is slow. I have the > > > same problem on my Cygwin systems. > > > > Just to be clear, I'm not trying to blame Cygwin here. > > > > Windows' dir command is slow. Windows Explorer is slow while > > browsing directories. I think this is a very common scenario costing hideous amounts of money around the globe. If you have lot's of files in a folder, don't even think of accidentally touching those folders in Windows Explorer, if you do - keep Process Explorer or similar ready. I've ended up using (even w/o Cygwin) scripts, automatic compressing and even a database functioning as directory cache - basically creating accessibility layers for a disabled file-system. > > before buying any new hardware, you could easily imagine the > following scenario (I'm also "stuck" with windows, so it's an idea > I've been toying around for a week or so). > > There're virtualizers around, on which networking capabilities can > be activated. And we could easily create a vm with linux+git > inside, using ext2/ext3/ext4 fs virtual disks (you'd benefit from > windows cache actually...) > > example: YTech_Subversion_Appliance_v1.1 (ubuntu + subversion). > > I've no prototype yet, but I've 2 scenario possible: > 1) use vmplayer and a minimal uclibc initramfs with git onboard > 2) use qemu+kqemu and a similar mini-distro (but right now networking > is an issue on windows hosts: I'm exploring tunneling) > > The 1st scenario is "easy". And I start to prefer this idea over > even mingw porting of git (I tried and it's hard, really). > > But again, maybe jgit would be a better universal solution. > > -- > Christian > - Very interesting! Have you a time-frame for this? Maybe even