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Git doesn't solve the issue, it suffers from it, that's the point. And as others pointed out already, mercurial is a DVCS. It just isn't as shitty as git, tha

by Sssnake 13y ago

Git doesn't solve the issue, it suffers from it, that's the point. And as others pointed out already, mercurial is a DVCS. It just isn't as shitty as git, that's all.

cstejerean 13y ago
Mercurial itself runs into issues way before git does, it's just that Facebook has essentially gutted a bunch of things out Mercurial in order to make the resulting thing fast (punting on things like computing status, downloading diffs, etc).
- Sssnake 13y ago
  No, git runs into issues before mercurial does. Just saying the opposite of reality doesn't make it so.
  - ibrahima 13y ago
    Did you even read the post? Stock git is significantly faster than stock mercurial, it's only after they hack it up that they make it faster.
    - jordigh 13y ago
      There are some operations in which git is way slower than Mercurial. Two examples are cloning and blame/annotate. git's data structures are optimised for some operations, but not for others.
    - Sssnake 13y ago
      Did you? It isn't about speed, it is about scaling.