From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 16:01:30 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] t/helper/simple-ipc: convert test-simple-ipc to use start_bg_command Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Adam Dinwoodie writes: > I have just run the complete test suite on rc2, both with and without > this patch, and I can confirm it resolves this problem and doesn't > cause any other new test failures. Thanks for a good news. > But yes, the (lack of) speed of running the Git test suite on Cygwin > is one of the reasons I run the tests on high-spec Azure VMs rather > than my own systems. Unfortunately the Cygwin compatibility layer plus > the overheads of NTFS mean things are unlikely to get significantly > quicker any time soon, and between WSL and Git for Windows, I expect > interest in improving Cygwin's performance is going to continue to > wane. Out of curiosity, are the use cases and user base of Cygwin waning, or are there still viable cases where Cygwin is a more preferred solution over WSL (the question is not limited to use of Git)?