From: Johannes Sixt Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:09:16 GMT Subject: Re: [msysGit] Re: ANN: Git for Windows 1.7.0.2 preview 20100309 Message-ID: <201003102109.17210.j6t@kdbg.org> In-Reply-To: On Mittwoch, 10. März 2010, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 19:24, Johannes Schindelin > > wrote: > > > - Substantially speeded up startup time from cmd unless > > > NO_FSTAB_THREAD is  set (thanks Johannes Sixt). > > > > Sweet, any numbers? > > Yes: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.msysgit/7986 > > Basically, if you are not running Git from Git Bash, but from cmd.exe, > every single call to MSys programs (such as sh.exe, perl.exe, sed.exe, > etc) will take 100ms extra. > > > Also, why would I need to set NO_FSTAB_THREAD? > > When you want to access a USB stick that you plugged in after starting Git > Bash. 1. The environment variable name is MSYS_WATCH_FSTAB. 2. Unfortunately, it does not make a plugged-in USB stick visible to a running bash; this non-feature is not addressed by this variable. 3. You would want to set the variable to non-zero if you frequently edit /etc/fstab while an interactive bash is running. :-P -- Hannes