From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Riesen Subject: Re: Deciding between Git/Mercurial Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:31:50 +0200 Message-ID: <81b0412b0909271231u54fbe035n3ce2503237b5ebf3@mail.gmail.com> References: <81b0412b0909271144o26743e05uac3132cdc5b530b@mail.gmail.com> <585748.13758.qm@web27802.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: newsgroups@catchall.shelter13.net X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Sep 27 21:36:37 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MrzXw-0006I9-Oo for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:36:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750912AbZI0Tbt (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:31:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750750AbZI0Tbt (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:31:49 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f210.google.com ([209.85.218.210]:50642 "EHLO mail-bw0-f210.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750699AbZI0Tbs (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:31:48 -0400 Received: by bwz6 with SMTP id 6so885422bwz.37 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:31:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=zNHNKKSfijbh9T+52JfSrmvRIuTIfoW4/I41w7PPYaw=; b=pgEt7IxSMgiHRQrtxNFqpfB4ah6STMK3fMIHtVPgBU5zwcRMWcgH7bnClZBNcqlZIe XCRcmZ/Bx4ezi15IJPTjif35q5VpFW2hZeOuQcEPGc4/EjelDFC+FNpZre4bwJYBOItT Rzv+QBxj6k6E5munoq/1NS1XGDE/3Rrw8+KbI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=fOsbmTudiF84sfi9qoAzTPZdhCdH5JMa7xoAqYZMMWmlmRlqv7WG8rriLsLUo8tkV8 Zb4Emf71gQUKSNF4Y2cFSVH1LLhZg1XOGKca/hoXhWUOG8ETy1WxYb/818TnT38BRbB3 Qwt61uuBeVrCz6Ac5noMDdANJVqaYct1C+ELo= Received: by 10.204.8.155 with SMTP id h27mr2347459bkh.55.1254079910873; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:31:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 21:18, Anteru wrote: > Don't get me wrong with Git+msysgit on Windows, the point is simply if > we switch to git, can we expect that Windows will be supported for the > foreseeable future or is it possible that git may simply drop Windows > support completely? ... Despite what I said, this is very unlikely (sadly). There are active developers whose professional life happens in Windows. Besides, the project is open- source and no one can stop you from taking over the maintainership of a port. > As I said, I'm happy with using msysgit, but I cannot find any roadmap There isn't any. Roadmaps are for projects with a guaranteed end of life :-p > etc. which helps me to determine how git and Windows is going to > continue (for instance, I can find some complaints that git's > performance is bad on Windows due to cygwin's fork()/exec(), is this > likely to get ever "fixed"? Not likely. OTOH, msysGIT does not have that part of performance problem.