Re: MinGW port usable

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:

I'd like to point interested parties to the MinGW port at

 git://repo.or.cz/git/mingw.git

which is now in a usable state, methinks. I'm using it with git-gui and gitk 
on a (almost) production repository.

Can you elaborate about any performance differences, especially with 
cygwin? Does this make git perform reasonably on Windows, or are the 
performance problems as bad as with cygwin?

Junio, you may like to cherry-pick these two non-critical commits from my 
repository:

8c8bb94f94f1d972c7ffadda4744cf343fac6f34 gitk: Use peek-remote instead of  ls-remote.

gitk really shouldn't use either. It should probably use

	git-show-ref -h -d

instead, which has the same output format (modulo a space vs tab issue), 
and is entirely local, with no silly unnecessary remote connext.

Something like this patch.

Does that work on mingw too?

		Linus
----

diff --git a/gitk b/gitk
index 031c829..6b4a4ac 100755
--- a/gitk
+++ b/gitk

@@ -309,9 +309,9 @@ proc readrefs {} {
     foreach v {tagids idtags headids idheads otherrefids idotherrefs} {
 	catch {unset $v}
     }
-    set refd [open [list | git ls-remote [gitdir]] r]
+    set refd [open [list | git show-ref -h -d] r]
     while {0 <= [set n [gets $refd line]]} {
-	if {![regexp {^([0-9a-f]{40})	refs/([^^]*)$} $line \
+	if {![regexp {^([0-9a-f]{40}) refs/([^^]*)$} $line \
 	    match id path]} {
 	    continue
 	}