Re: Git drawbacks?

From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 6, 2009, 16:49 UTC
Message-ID: <32541b130911060849s2d8f13f5sb9b8390f075f8d15@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20091106T160709-387@post.gmane.org>

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Dmitry Smirnov <divis1969@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Here is the wish list for the VCS I would prefer:
> 1. Atomit commits
> 2. The possibility to get any slice of the code repository with the possibility
> to commit my changes on tip or on separate branch.
> 3. The minimum footprint of the same code on my local machine.
> 4. No code/history on my machine untill I really need it.
> 5. Easy mirroring and replication
>
> I would say, ClearCase might be my favorite if it is not commercial. :-)

#1 and #5 are features of any DVCS, so git already has them. #2, 3, and 4 are all just saying the same thing: "I can't afford the disk space to store the entire repo." Are you sure this is true, or is it a preconception? Even a 1GB repository is tiny by modern disk standards.

My (limited) experience with ClearCase is that it's so slow that you'd do *anything* to track fewer files in your working copy, so they put a lot of work into exactly that, and no work into performance. This lousy performance isn't the case in git (except in Windows). Are you using Windows, by chance?

Have fun,

Avery