From: Christian MICHON Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:08:59 GMT Subject: Re: MinGW port usable Message-ID: <46d6db660701291508m4362eedchd4050e61f4989a92@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 1/29/07, Linus Torvalds 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... > 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