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Re: VCS comparison table

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 20, 2006, 15:28 UTC
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<200610201728.13327.jnareb@gmail.com>
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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
>> Christian MICHON wrote:
>> 
>>> - git is the fastest scm around
>> 
>> Mercurial also claims that.
> 
> Funny. When you type in "mercurial" and "benchmark" into Google, the 
> _first_ hit is into "git Archives: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb 
> benchmark". Performed by the good Mercurial people.
> 
> Leaving git as winner.
 
Check out http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitBenchmarks section "Quilt import 
comparison of Git and Mercurial" for the latest (OLS2006) benchmark
by Mercurial. Probably not indexed by Google, or doesn't have high 
pagerank because it is in PDF and fairly new (therefore has low 
"citations" number).
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  3. Jakub NarebskiOct 20, 2006
  4. Johannes SchindelinOct 20, 2006
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