From: David Kastrup Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:48:56 GMT Subject: Re: Git benchmark - comparison with Bazaar, Darcs, Git and Mercurial Message-ID: <86myxbod1j.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> In-Reply-To: <7vodhrby6f.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Junio C Hamano writes: > 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. Well, I'd not call the -l aversy a complete superstition: it means that cloning a repository won't provide any redundancy worth noting against file system corruption. -- David Kastrup