From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Magit slow on Windows Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 12:37:17 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <6C45C785-8275-46B8-9D1E-FF8D2B52C3E2@bbheim.de> <83mx5gyqht.fsf@gnu.org> <84k40jz3eg.fsf@163.org> <83zk9fxoma.fsf@gnu.org> <84pqabtgky.fsf@gmail.com> <83y5ozxnzd.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1336732665 19161 80.91.229.3 (11 May 2012 10:37:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 10:37:45 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 11 12:37:44 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SSnEF-0007fO-TU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 May 2012 12:37:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39764 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SSnEF-00070U-9h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 May 2012 06:37:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43953) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SSnE8-0006zS-Ve for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2012 06:37:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SSnE2-0000cg-T7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2012 06:37:36 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37920) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SSnE2-0000cU-MJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2012 06:37:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SSnE0-0007Xo-R0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 May 2012 12:37:28 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 May 2012 12:37:28 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 May 2012 12:37:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TwDbuqGikSqawIGKKa6b970SHp8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150441 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Kevin Yu >> Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 13:46:53 +0800 >> >> Eli Zaretskii writes: >> >> > Which is what? msysgit or the Cygwin git? >> >> msysgit. > > Then I think this is wrong: you should see > > c:/git/bin/git.exe > > Invoking git through a Windows shell script incurs an unnecessary > slowdown. You should start Emacs from the shell that knows about the > msysgit installation, to get correct behavior. > > But I'm not sure this will solve your problem. The Windows filesystem > is slower than Linux filesystems, especially with a cold cache, and > nothing, not even Emacs, can change that. Not in anyway that would cause any human recognisable delay. Suggesting that speed of the file system is in any way contributing to this issue is somewhat silly and misleading and introducing fud.