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Re: Git benchmark - comparison with Bazaar, Darcs, Git and Mercurial

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 1, 2007, 05:50 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> (Which admittedly is a bit odd. The reason I didn't ever seriously even 
> consider monotone was that the initial import was so *incredibly* sucky, 
> and took hours for the kernel. So use "-l" for benchmarks, and damn my 
> "I hate hardlinking repos" idiocy).

I would call aversion to -l a superstition, while aversion to -s has a sound technical reasons. The latter means you need to know what you are doing --- namely, you are making the clone still dependent on the original.

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