Re: Cross-Platform Version Control

From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Esko Luontola <esko.luontola@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cross-Platform Version Control
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 00:25:34 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0905150022400.26154@pacific.mpi-cbg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A0C77D9.5050402@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 14 May 2009, Esko Luontola wrote:

> Peter Krefting wrote on 14.5.2009 16:48:
> 
> > The best way would be to define this in the Git core once and for all, 
> > and add support to it for all the platforms in the same go, instead of 
> > trying to hack around the issue whenever it pops up on the various 
> > platforms.
> 
> +1

You might be enthusiastic about this cunning idea.  However, if it costs 
me performance on Linux, and all the benefits go to Windows users, then I 
will remove this "solution" from my personal Git tree _right away_, and 
I'd expect a lot of other people, too.

I repeat this just once more: if you add complexity, you'll have to have a 
compelling reason to do so.  If there is no benefit for Linux users, why 
should they bear the cost?

But as Andreas remarked, I sincerely think that there has been enough talk 
about the issue.  It's time to see some patches, or to stop the 
discussion.

Ciao,
Dscho