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The speed was also slower for the native protocol if you read the footnote to the end. Also, as I noted, this was years ago. I was making a point about cloning/
by rbehrends 13y ago
The speed was also slower for the native protocol if you read the footnote to the end. Also, as I noted, this was years ago. I was making a point about cloning/pulling/pushing speed being dependent not on just the repository size, not about the relative superiority of one or the other tool [1].
[1] I find both Mercurial and Git adequate, but lacking in some aspects that are important to me (both with respect to architectural design and workflow considerations). For practical work, I consider the differences between Mercurial and Git to be relatively minor in comparison and cannot really get exercised over them.
- cmccabe 13y agoIs it really helpful to provide numbers that you know are many years out of date? If you're really interested in this, try to import a big repository like, say, the Linux kernel using the latest version of Mercurial and see how it compares to the latest version of git.
- rbehrends 13y agoI was making a point about what factors influence clone performance in general, not trying to contribute to the tedious Git vs. Mercurial debate. If I had found any data about, say, Gnu Arch vs. Codeville (or some other abandoned codebase), I would have used that instead.