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Re: cygwin, 44k files: how to commit only index?

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TSTorgil Svensson <torgil.svensson@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 9, 2006, 08:27 UTC
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On 12/7/06, Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 12/7/06, Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > > Its Cygwin/NTFS.  lstat() is slow.  readdir() is slow.  I have the
> > > same problem on my Cygwin systems.
> >
> > Just to be clear, I'm not trying to blame Cygwin here.
> >
> > Windows' dir command is slow.  Windows Explorer is slow while
> > browsing directories.

I think this is a very common scenario costing hideous amounts of money around the globe.

If you have lot's of files in a folder, don't even think of accidentally touching those folders in Windows Explorer, if you do - keep Process Explorer or similar ready. I've ended up using (even w/o Cygwin) scripts, automatic compressing and even a database functioning as directory cache - basically creating accessibility layers for a disabled file-system.

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>
> before buying any new hardware, you could easily imagine the
> following scenario (I'm also "stuck" with windows, so it's an idea
> I've been toying around for a week or so).
>
> There're virtualizers around, on which networking capabilities can
> be activated. And we could easily create a vm with linux+git
> inside, using ext2/ext3/ext4 fs virtual disks (you'd benefit from
> windows cache actually...)
>
> example: YTech_Subversion_Appliance_v1.1 (ubuntu + subversion).
>
> I've no prototype yet, but I've 2 scenario possible:
> 1) use vmplayer and a minimal uclibc initramfs with git onboard
> 2) use qemu+kqemu and a similar mini-distro (but right now networking
> is an issue on windows hosts: I'm exploring tunneling)
>
> The 1st scenario is "easy". And I start to prefer this idea over
> even mingw porting of git (I tried and it's hard, really).
>
> But again, maybe jgit would be a better universal solution.
>
> --
> Christian
> -
Very interesting!  Have you a time-frame for this?  Maybe even
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  5. Christian MICHONDec 7, 2006
  6. Torgil SvenssonDec 9, 2006
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  8. Shawn PearceDec 7, 2006
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