Re: windows problems summary
On 3/2/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
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> > 1. opened and mmaped files can't be removed or renamed
> > (caused workaround with reading index in memory)
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> It was not the locking which caused the workaround. It was the
> not-working. (I still have to find a Windows machine where git-whatchanged
> does not segfault without NO_MMAP.)
me too. It crashes everywhere here.
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> > 4. non-unix permissions model
> > (breaks x-attr)
> > 5. real slow filesystems and caching
> > (makes everything slow. I noticed I'm trying to avoid git status!).
> > Caused workaround with manual checkout)
> > 6. real slow program startup
> > (makes everything slow, eventually may cause everything being put
> > in one super-executable, just to avoid spawning new processes,
> > with all associated problems. Makes scripting harder)
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> Except for (4), these issues should be resolvable by the libifying effort.
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How can it help with 5? Less accesses to index?
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>