As everyone is aware, git is slower on Windows than on Linux. My question is this: would an ext2fs partition on my Windows machine speed up git on Windows? (Not that it's *that* slow -- it's just that I'm a bit jealous of those amazingly fast operations on Linux, and faster is better, no?)
So the question is also: is the slowness of git-specific file system operations on Windows mostly the fault of the kernel, or of NTFS, or both? If it's mostly NTFS, then an ext2fs partition might be worthwhile, using one of the many drivers available for Windows. If it's just the nature of Windows, then an ext2fs partition would only add needless complexity. Before I launch into time-consuming experimentation, I thought I would ask if anyone has had experience with msysgit on ext2fs on Windows. Unfortunately, my time is too limited to repartition the one or two PC's available to me to give it a go. One is mission critical, so I don't want to perform this experiment if the results are already known. (If they *are*known, they're hard to find on Google.) In any case I'd have to purchase Partition Magic or the like to resize my NTFS partitions. Thanks. - Jim
