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Git is and always was very fast. Hg used to be much much slower, and still is.
by formerly_proven 6y ago
Git is and always was very fast. Hg used to be much much slower, and still is.
- lifthrasiir 6y agoBoth were still very faster than the mainstream solution at the time that is Subversion. I don't think Git could achieve the domination comparable to today without Github for that reason.
- gmueckl 6y agoMercurial beats git in a fair bechmark on a large repository by now. As far as I know, no other DVCS received similar dedicated optimizations. (Microsoft worked around git by shimming a fake file system driver below the local repository to make it scale enouth to cover the Windows codebase. It's all Windows exclusive and not part of git, so it doesn't really count).
- ammo1662 6y agoThey asked to add it to Git, however they are rejected.