Re: Using Git with windows

From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 6, 2009, 15:30 UTC
Message-ID: <37fcd2780903060730j396588c8v38c302bde3be4bca@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <c115fd3c0903060638lfc52073nd40e0d7379d7f593@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> wrote:

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> IMHO, Git under cygwin's pretty nice.  I tried using MSysGit as well
> and didn't feel like it was quite as good as just building Git under
> cygwin.  I also run Git on an Mac at home and while it's clearly
> faster, Git under Cygwin still beats the pants off of SVN under
> Cygwin.

If I am not mistaken Git 1.6.1 should work about twice faster under Cygwin than previous versions with such common operations as "git diff", "git status", because it avoids emulation of stat() in most common cases...

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>> But is there a way around this if i run a linux VM with Git running
>> and mount a windows ntfs partition ?
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> Would this really be faster?  I don't have a whole lot of experience
> with virtualization, but isn't Cygwin 'basically' doing this already?

No, Cygwin works very differently... In some cases, Cygwin will work faster, but there are operations that are very costly under Cygwin such as fork(). So, what is faster depends on what you do, and there are many other factors here such available memory or present some antivirus programs, which can kill performance... But, in general, if you work on Windows, it makes much more sense to Cygwin or MSysGit than running Git under VmWare...

Dmitry