From: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:23:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Cygwin playbook?
Message-ID: <20060907142344.GB1835@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20060907072741.GA10652@spearce.org>

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