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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 19:16:04 +0200 (CEST)
From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@....de>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
cc: 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
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.
Ciao,
Johannes
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