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Re: Spearheading a TortoiseGIT project

From: Geoffrey Lee <GeoffreyJ.Lee_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:20:51 -0800 (PST)

Looks like somebody else released an early preview version just as I
was getting started. I'll just watch and see what happens for now.
http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/

-Geoffrey Lee

On Dec 10, 2:54 am, Geoffrey Lee <GeoffreyJ...._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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