From: Alex Riesen Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:31:50 GMT Subject: Re: Deciding between Git/Mercurial Message-ID: <81b0412b0909271231u54fbe035n3ce2503237b5ebf3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 21:18, Anteru wrote: > Don't get me wrong with Git+msysgit on Windows, the point is simply if > we switch to git, can we expect that Windows will be supported for the > foreseeable future or is it possible that git may simply drop Windows > support completely? ... Despite what I said, this is very unlikely (sadly). There are active developers whose professional life happens in Windows. Besides, the project is open- source and no one can stop you from taking over the maintainership of a port. > As I said, I'm happy with using msysgit, but I cannot find any roadmap There isn't any. Roadmaps are for projects with a guaranteed end of life :-p > etc. which helps me to determine how git and Windows is going to > continue (for instance, I can find some complaints that git's > performance is bad on Windows due to cygwin's fork()/exec(), is this > likely to get ever "fixed"? Not likely. OTOH, msysGIT does not have that part of performance problem.