Re: MinGW port - initial work uploaded

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jan 23, 2007, 15:53 UTC
Message-ID: <20070123155311.GB23549@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0701230745g4b18747ep73d37674a969c1aa@mail.gmail.com>

On 1/23/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

>Actually, I have been seriously wondering if there is some setup under
>Wine that I could run, just so that I'd see the Windows development
>environment for git.

Modify Linux VFS layer to:

 - make open take about 10x longer
 - make lstat take about 20x longer

and finally remove any useful programs, except Git. Use the worst xterm available. You are left with a close approximation.

-- 
Shawn.

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