Re: MinGW port usable

From: Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 29, 2007, 23:08 UTC
Message-ID: <46d6db660701291508m4362eedchd4050e61f4989a92@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701291438580.3611@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On 1/29/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Can you elaborate about any performance differences, especially with
> cygwin? Does this make git perform reasonably on Windows, or are the
> performance problems as bad as with cygwin?
>

I do not know about cygwin recently (else than it was slow), but I cloned my packed git repository of all 117 2.6 linux kernels and the "git diff" rocks on it.

git-unpack and git-repack was slow as hell, though. Maybe this is the part to be improved. Mostly bad I/Os...

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> gitk really shouldn't use either. It should probably use
>
>         git-show-ref -h -d
>
> instead, which has the same output format (modulo a space vs tab issue),
> and is entirely local, with no silly unnecessary remote connext.
>
> Something like this patch.
>
> Does that work on mingw too?
>

I'll try that tomorrow, but you'll have other reporting about it, for sure.

-- 
Christian