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Re: Cygwin playbook?

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CFChristopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
Date
Sep 7, 2006, 14:23 UTC
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<20060907142344.GB1835@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
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On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 03:27:41AM -0400, Shawn Pearce wrote:
>Git pretty much works as you would expect; its just somewhat slower
>than on a good UNIX system.  Maybe its Cygwin, maybe its Windows,
>maybe its the 4+ year old system its running on.  :-)

It's likely to be the fact that Windows doesn't support fork or exec so Cygwin has to emulate both - slowly.

cgf
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  6. Christopher FaylorSep 7, 2006
  7. Shawn PearceSep 7, 2006
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