Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Oct 16, 2007, 12:47 UTC
Message-ID: <86sl4bjkef.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710161335260.25221@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> Hi,
>
> [culled make-w32, as per explicit request]
>
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> > Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:56:46 -0400 (EDT)
>> > From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
>> > cc: raa.lkml@gmail.com, Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de, ae@op5.se, 
>> >     tsuna@lrde.epita.fr, git@vger.kernel.org, make-w32@gnu.org
>> > 
>> > Ah, that's helpful. We don't actually care too much about the 
>> > particular info in stat; we just want to know quickly if the file has 
>> > changed, so we can hash only the ones that have been touched and get 
>> > the actual content changes.
>> 
>> As I wrote in my other message, using native APIs improves
>> performance by at least a factor of two.
>
> Somehow this does not appeal to my "portability is good" side.  You
> know, if we had to do such trickeries for every platform we support,
> we'd soon be as big as Subversion *cough*.

With a reasonable way of factoring out things, the per-platform overhead should be tolerable.

> For me, this is the most annoying part about programming Win32.
> They went out of their way to make it incompatible with everything
> else, and as a consequence it is a PITA to maintain crossplatform
> programs.

Well, they certainly score high on the "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea" metric. Enough compatibility to make it into projects with cross-platform specifications, and enough incompatibility to make it inconvenient to support anything but Windows once they made it into the door.

-- 
David Kastrup