On 10/15/07, Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> wrote: > > And I have to disagree strongly with the "black": In msysGit (which brings > > its own minimal version of MSys), it is very smooth. > > > > Oh? I didn't know that. Windows and its unixifying toolboxes is unknown > territory to me, as I happily spend all my time on various unices. I'm a unix-head too. Last couple of weeks had to work on a windows server, and installed msysGit. Very impressed - all the needed dependencies are there, from an end-user POV it "just works". > I was under the impression that the windows port suffers from Windows' > lack of a proper fork() and friends and that a proper library would > help solving those problems. Perhaps I was misinformed. I think msys' DLLs might be doing what cygwin does, an emulated fork. A quite surprising thing is that msysgit manages to be very fast. Not as fast as the same git, same hw running on a recent Linux, but pretty usable fast for a tree with a few thousand files. Earlier/other git ports to win32 are pretty slow (still faster than svn and friends, but slooow). cheers, m - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
