On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Aryeh Gregor (Simetrical) wrote:
git works on all Unix-likes (including Linux and OS X) fine by command line. It will also likely work in Cygwin without much trouble (again, on the command line).
The problem of git on Windows is not executing it but executing it /fast/. fork() implementations on Windows are painful and I think there were also problems with Windows managing the filesystem in a less efficient way than Linux. For heavily FS based it can make a diffference.
Marco Schuster wrote: b) the commandconsole itself, cmd.exe is bitrotten from down to top, look at command history for excellent examples. not everyone has the SFU installed.
What does Services For Unix provide to the command history that isn't on vanilla cmd.exe ?
Cygwin of course is the other possibility, but here applies the problem of speed and the work amount needed to install it. It can really suck to get a working cygwin environment...
Marco
Cygwin is a bit intrusive on the system.