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

On 12/7/06, Shawn Pearce [off-list ref] wrote:

Shawn Pearce [off-list ref] wrote:

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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.  Eclipse chugs hard while doing any directory
scans (it normally runs very fast if its not rescanning the entire
directory structure).  The drive is just plain slow.
(...)

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.

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