From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:50:48 GMT Subject: Re: Git benchmark - comparison with Bazaar, Darcs, Git and Mercurial Message-ID: <7vodhrby6f.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds 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.