Re:Sunsetting Mercurial Support in Bitbucket
by grandinj on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @03:28PM
(#20750985)
git was deliberately designed around the "known fast" things in Linux.
One of those is that path name lookup for certain file attributes is dirt cheap because of the dentry cache.
Since Windows doesn't have an equivalent, git is going to be slower there.
Hopefully the Microsoft people working on this will find ways to make git on Windows faster, since even with a much smaller repo (LibreOffice), git is somewhat painful on Windows.
Re:Sunsetting Mercurial Support in Bitbucket
by xnyan on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @12:53AM
(#20754656)
my takeaway of the demo I saw on WSL2 at the Microsoft conference was basically several hours of engineers salivating over how much faster git was on wsl2
One of those is that path name lookup for certain file attributes is dirt cheap because of the dentry cache.
Since Windows doesn't have an equivalent, git is going to be slower there.
Hopefully the Microsoft people working on this will find ways to make git on Windows faster, since even with a much smaller repo (LibreOffice), git is somewhat painful on Windows.