Re: Deciding between Git/Mercurial

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On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 21:18, Anteru <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Don't get me wrong with Git+msysgit on Windows, the point is simply if
> we switch to git, can we expect that Windows will be supported for the
> foreseeable future or is it possible that git may simply drop Windows
> support completely? ...

Despite what I said, this is very unlikely (sadly). There are active developers
whose professional life happens in Windows. Besides, the project is open-
source and no one can stop you from taking over the maintainership of a port.

> As I said, I'm happy with using msysgit, but I cannot find any roadmap

There isn't any. Roadmaps are for projects with a guaranteed end of life :-p

> etc. which helps me to determine how git and Windows is going to
> continue (for instance, I can find some complaints that git's
> performance is bad on Windows due to cygwin's fork()/exec(), is this
> likely to get ever "fixed"?

Not likely. OTOH, msysGIT does not have that part of performance problem.
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