Re: MinGW port usable

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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?

Performance is horrid, although better than I initially expected. I
don't (want to) have cygwin installed to compare it (that's why I did
the MinGW port in the first place ;) Maybe others can comment on this?

The test suite takes ~15min to complete on my box, which is an oooold
800MHz with a slow HD. (And it's still Win2K, if that matters.)

Quite frankly, the "performance boost" that I expect from this port is
that it allows me the workflow that I want, instead of constantly
banging my head against the walls of CVS/SVN/you-name-it.

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.

Thanks, this works (I tested Junio's version). The problem with
ls-remote was that it is a shell script, and for some reason it dumps
its output into a cmd.exe that opens and closes right away instead of to
the pipe.

-- Hannes