Re: Switching from CVS to GIT
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
- Date
- Oct 16, 2007, 16:04 UTC
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, David Brown wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 02:25:21AM -0400, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > On the other hand, what packages have 100K files? If there's only one > > -- the Linux kernel -- then I think this kind of performance is for > > all practical purposes unimportant on Windows, because while it is > > reasonable to assume that someone would like to use git on Windows, > > assuming that someone will develop the Linux kernel on Windows is -- > > how should I put it -- _really_ far-fetched ;-) > > Oh, I wish others could think this clearly. Quoting a serious line off of > a task list at an unnamed company: > > - Make Linux kernel compile under windows. > > I don't think it will move past just being a wish list item, but there seem > to be people that think it should be done.
Linux is compilable on Windows, and has been for a long time already. With Cygwin it is pretty trivial to do. I prefer native Linux though.
Nicolas