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> 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
by 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...