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Is today's Subversion fast enough? My first impression of Mercurial moving from Subversion was that it's much faster compared to Subversion (I know, Subversion

Is today's Subversion fast enough? My first impression of Mercurial moving from Subversion was that it's much faster compared to Subversion (I know, Subversion over HTTP at that time was nothing more than WebDAV :-); I'd migrated all my repositories at the day 1. I later noticed that it noticably slows down with larger repositories and that became a good reason to try Git out (only to be displeased with its interface, though), but even Mercurial was "fast" enough to displace Subversion for me.

gmueckl 9y ago
The speed of Subversion depends heavily on the hardware involved. On an underpowered server and/or over a WAN/internet connection it will be slow. On a fast server in a good LAN it is so fast that the speed difference to git or hg does not matter in practice: you will spend more time entering commands than waiting for the tool to process them.