From: Dave Korn Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:23:11 GMT Subject: RE: Switching from CVS to GIT Message-ID: <03f401c81010$d8833de0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> In-Reply-To: <20071016155608.GA10603@old.davidb.org> On 16 October 2007 16:56, 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. > > Admittedly, they don't want developers doing it on windows, but want to > integrate kernel building into a windows-heavy build and release process. Do that kind of thing here all the time, hence my previous post. Apart from the netfilter stuff with the filenames-that-match-in-all-but-case, no real problems, took me a couple of hours one afternoon. Cygwin is a good match for linux dev work. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....