Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 05:23:11PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 16 October 2007 16:56, David Brown wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 02:25:21AM -0400, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 
>>> On the other hand, what packages have 100K files?  If there's only one
>>> -- the Linux kernel -- then I think this kind of performance is for
>>> all practical purposes unimportant on Windows, because while it is
>>> reasonable to assume that someone would like to use git on Windows,
>>> assuming that someone will develop the Linux kernel on Windows is --
>>> how should I put it -- _really_ far-fetched ;-)
>> 
>> Oh, I wish others could think this clearly.  Quoting a serious line off of
>> a task list at an unnamed company:
>> 
>>    - Make Linux kernel compile under windows.
>> 
>> I don't think it will move past just being a wish list item, but there seem
>> to be people that think it should be done.
>> 
>> Admittedly, they don't want developers doing it on windows, but want to
>> integrate kernel building into a windows-heavy build and release process.
>
>  Do that kind of thing here all the time, hence my previous post.  Apart from
>the netfilter stuff with the filenames-that-match-in-all-but-case, no real
>problems, took me a couple of hours one afternoon.

Ditto.

Coincidentially enough this is the reason I wrote managed mode for cygwin's
mount.

But, we're pretty far off-topic aren't we?

cgf