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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 19:00:30 +0100
From: Ray Donnelly <mingw.android@...il.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@....de>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>, Jeff King <peff@...f.net>, git@...r.kernel.org,
musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Regression: git no longer works with musl libc's regex impl
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@....de> wrote:
> Hi Rich,
>
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Rich Felker wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 06:08:33PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> > Hi Rich,
>> >
>> > On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Rich Felker wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:27:22AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>> > > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:08:48AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > 1. is nonzero mod page size, it just works; the remainder of the last
>> > > > > page reads as zero bytes when mmapped.
>> > > >
>> > > > Is that a portable assumption?
>> > >
>> > > Yes.
>> >
>> > No, it is not. You quote POSIX, but the matter of the fact is that we use
>> > a subset of POSIX in order to be able to keep things running on Windows.
>> >
>> > And quite honestly, there are lots of reasons to keep things running on
>> > Windows, and even to favor Windows support over musl support. Over four
>> > million reasons: the Git for Windows users.
>>
>> I would hope that in the future, git-for-windows users will be using
>> musl, via midipix, rather than the painfully slow and awful version
>> they're stuck with now...
>
> Git for Windows actually uses the MSVC runtime, which is blazing fast.
>
> You are probably confusing Git for Windows with Cygwin Git.
To be fair, Cygwin Git isn't *that* slow, though I look forward to the
day when MSYS2 can use the native-Windows/GfW version instead
(including your rebase-in-C changes)
>
> Ciao,
> Johannes
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