From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:33:47 GMT
Subject: Re: windows problems summary
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0603021833360.31727@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0603020833j214556bek887c53a3ef43fd58@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Alex Riesen wrote:

> On 3/2/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > > 1. opened and mmaped files can't be removed or renamed
> > >   (caused workaround with reading index in memory)
> >
> > 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.
> 
> > > 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)
> >
> > Except for (4), these issues should be resolvable by the libifying effort.
> >
> 
> How can it help with 5? Less accesses to index?

Exactly.

Ciao,
Dscho