Re: Does anyone have any benchmarks against CVS?

From: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Date: Jun 11, 2007, 22:30 UTC
Message-ID: <20070611223043.GE13515@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90706111454i5f4898b5kd77d18f4a893904e@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:54:50AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:

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>  On 11 Jun 2007 05:04:51 -0400, linux@horizon.com <linux@horizon.com> wrote:
> > It seems to be common knowledge that git is a heck of a lot faster than
> > CVS at most operations, but I'd like to do a little evangelizing and
> > I can't seem to find a benchmark to support that claim.
> 
>  It _will_ be a bit of an apple-to-oranges comparison, but you could
>  use a few large-ish projects that have a published GIT gateway.
>  Measure time and bw use of
> 
>    - cvs co vs git clone

On the Git side, give breakdowns of the time for cloning with --bare (git-fetch) and the separate actual checkout time. Also compare the effects of shallow clones.

>    - cvs update vs git pull

Again, do both the git-fetch and git-merge portions.

>    - cvs log (at top level) vs git log

cvs history vs. git log might be more appropriate in the top level sense.

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