Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark

From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: May 2, 2005, 19:02 UTC
Message-ID: <1785.10.10.10.24.1115060548.squirrel@linux1>
In-Reply-To: <427650E7.2000802@tmr.com>

On Mon, May 2, 2005 12:10 pm, Bill Davidsen said:

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> Now look at pulling 41MB over a T1 link. All of a sudden I care bigtime!
> I want very much to use my bandwidth for other things, I don't want 41MB
> added to my backup, etc. Disk space is cheap, but unless you ignore
> backups and have an OC3 or so, these numbers are large enough to be
> irritating. Not a huge issue, just one of those "piss me off every time
> I do it" things.

That 41MB or lets say 200MB is spread over several months between releases. Pulling once a day from the git public repository, makes this barely noticeable. In the future there may be optimized protocols to handle this more efficiently.

You bring up a good point about backups though. Eventually it might be nice to have a utility that exports/imports a git repository in a flat file using deltas rather than snapshots. Such an export format would make backups and tarballs cheaper.

Sean