On Dec 9, 6:11 pm, Nicholas Wourms <nwou..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Prepare yourself for a real challenge. The reason why GitCheetah was
> abandoned was because, like Mercurial and Baazar, GIT has no real api
> or interface library to speak of. To make matters worse, Git uses perl
> and shell scripts to perform some operations, in addition to spawning
> (forking) more child executables than you can shake a stick at (I
> think it installs like 50 executables in /usr/libexec). Windows
> spawning is terribly resource intensive and it will make exploring Git
> folders 100x slower than TortoiseSVN. To make matters worse, if you
> compile git without Cygwin, you will encounter a number of
> shortcomings in the VisualC runtime library that makes git act poorly
> or in unexpected ways.
You're probably referring to this: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=114131401509784
That was quite a while ago, and a lot of effort has been put into
libifying the code. The native Windows port, msysgit, is nearly
complete, and it performs well when I use it for production use at
work. Maybe I'm lucky enough to drop in at a good time. We shall
see...
-Geoffrey Lee
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