[Kde-scm-interest] Git roadmap

[Thiago Macieira]

Jaison Lee wrote:
>> 1) git support for all features we want/need
>>   We need to identify which features we want/need in git that aren't
>> present yet. We also need to make sure that git's features works as
>> expected by KDE developers.
>>   I already have two things to add here.
>
>I'm sure one of them is subprojects. :)
>
>It would be exceedingly helpful to hear from someone who is either
>currently using git in Windows or (even better) involved in porting
>efforts. Requiring Cygwin would be unfortunate, and although it could
>be tolerated if git ran very well, from what I've read it does not. My
>personal suspicion is that the only way git will run comparably well
>under Windows is if someone forks a native version, but that's just a
>suspicion. Real-world info would be helpful.

We have developers at Trolltech using msysgit, which seems to be the 
suggested platform, from what I gather.

It works fine, except that it's nowhere as fast as on Linux. Files and 
processes are much slower on Windows than on Linux. It's still damn fast, 
though.

msysgit is a complete installation of POSIX tools but without using 
cygwin1.dll. The POSIX tools are necessary because many of the git helper 
scripts are written in sh or perl.

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