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It's all because of this. Before git there was also monotone, which was fast and my personal favorite. But Linus tried it once and that specific version happene
by akvadrako 10y ago
It's all because of this. Before git there was also monotone, which was fast and my personal favorite. But Linus tried it once and that specific version happened to have a performance regression so he decided to rebuild the whole toolchain from scratch.
Honestly it's a good story about the power of marketing and I feel a bit sorry for the monotone developers because they did it first and well, but get almost no recognition.
- cesarb 10y ago> Before git there was also monotone, which was fast Fast? I played with OpenEmbedded (for OpenMoko) a while ago, which used monotone. From what I recall, it was slow. IIRC, slow enough that they had to use the trick of downloading a "pre-cloned" snapshot and updating it, instead of cloning from scratch.
- akvadrako 10y agoWe are talking about 12 years ago and since then monotone hasn't gotten much love, while the others have. I did find some benchmarks from 2009 and by then monotone shows consistent by often 5x slower performance than git: https://web.archive.org/web/20090131095353/http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/article/dvcs-round-one-system-rule-them-all-part-3 https://web.archive.org/web/20090131095353/http://ldn.linuxf...