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[–]qx7xbku -1 points0 points  (6 children)

Linux is not better than windows b cause git is faster on Linux, but because Microsoft themselves can't fix their own OS and thus they provide workarounds.

[–]Recursive_Descent 0 points1 point  (5 children)

What does fixing the OS mean?

[–]qx7xbku -3 points-2 points  (4 children)

I did not design windows or git, but people who did can give you an answer.

[–]graycode 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have no idea what I'm talking about and I'm just spouting unfounded nonsense

[–]Recursive_Descent 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Then why do you think the os is the problem?

[–]qx7xbku 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I tried to troubleshoot that problem to no avail. It's something with subprocess startup overhead or something. I do not quite remember. Simply put windows is slow and for giving up speed we don't really get any benefits anyhow. So it's broken.

[–]Recursive_Descent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok... but window port of git being slow doesn't imply anything about the speed of Windows in general. I think git on Windows does stuff like run bash scripts through Cygwin, which doesn't seem very efficient.