Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark

From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Date: Apr 29, 2005, 20:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20050429201957.GJ17379@opteron.random>
In-Reply-To: <3817.10.10.10.24.1114756831.squirrel@linux1>

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 02:40:31AM -0400, Sean wrote:

> There isn't anything preventing optomized transfer protocols for git.

such a system might fall apart under load, converting on the fly from git to network-optimized format sound quite expensive operation, even ignorign the initial decompression of the payload. If something it should be pre-converted to mercurial, so you checkout from mercurial and you apply to local git.

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