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Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org> 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)?