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That article doesn't debunk the claim very effectively, IMO: of Bazaar, Git, Mercurial, SVN, and CVS, Python-dominated Mercurial is the smallest by a healthy ma
by bermanoid 15y ago
That article doesn't debunk the claim very effectively, IMO: of Bazaar, Git, Mercurial, SVN, and CVS, Python-dominated Mercurial is the smallest by a healthy margin (~50k SLoC), whereas the more C heavy CVS, Git, and SVN weigh in at ~2x, 5x, and 8x that amount.
Sure, we throw in the almost 100%-Python Bazaar, at 200k, which CVS beats. But CVS vs. any of these other source control systems is not really a fair comparison, IMO, and it's still blown out of the water by Mercurial.
I'm not saying that this proves that Python code is smaller (comparing source control systems to each other is completely unfair, since they differ so much in feature set, platform target, and code quality), but it certainly does not disprove it.