That's true to a large extent as far as I can tell. I've seen reports on emacs-devel of commits taking a couple of minutes, and of having merge issues you'd nev

That's true to a large extent as far as I can tell. I've seen reports on emacs-devel of commits taking a couple of minutes, and of having merge issues you'd never encounter in Git. Bazaar wasn't chosen for Emacs for technical reasons, and they appear to be suffering the consequences of that.