Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

Hi,

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:39:12 +0100 (BST)
From: Johannes Schindelin <redacted>
cc: Daniel Barkalow <redacted>, raa.lkml@gmail.com, ae@op5.se, 
    tsuna@lrde.epita.fr, git@vger.kernel.org

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As I wrote in my other message, using native APIs improves 
performance by at least a factor of two.

Somehow this does not appeal to my "portability is good" side.  You 
know, if we had to do such trickeries for every platform we support, 
we'd soon be as big as Subversion *cough*.

You have to decide whether you care about performance enough to do
that or not.

Yes, I know that we'll have to use more special casing of Windows for 
performance reasons.  I was only lamenting that it would not need to be 
that way.  Just ignore me.

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For me, this is the most annoying part about programming Win32.  They 
went out of their way to make it incompatible with everything else, 
and as a consequence it is a PITA to maintain crossplatform programs.

Portability is a two-way street.  A program that wasn't designed to be 
portable will by definition be hard to port.  To me, what's annoying is 
a program that was designed around a single-OS model of APIs.

You're obviously not talking about git here.

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Explorer often accesses files it should not lock.  On the machine I 
test msysGit on, this is the most common reason for a test case to 
fail: it cannot delete the temporary directory, which _should_ be 
unused.  Indeed, a second after that, it _is_ unused.

One more reason not to launch Explorer, if you ask me ;-)  But maybe you 
have valid reasons to do that.  All I can say is that I never saw such 
problems, but then I don't usually run programs that rewrite files in a 
frenzy.

Funny.  Last time I checked the toolbar went away, as well as the desktop, 
when I killed explorer.exe.

Ciao,
Dscho