Adam Dinwoodie [off-list ref] 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)?