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Re: Does anyone have any benchmarks against CVS?

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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date
Jun 11, 2007, 09:26 UTC
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linux@horizon.com writes:
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> 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.
>
> Am I just blind?
>
> I could find a code base and measure myself, but perhaps someone who's
> been hacking on CVS converters already has a reasonable code base
> in both forms that could be used for testing?

CVS and git do completely different things (which is one of the main points of git). git tends to do its own things pretty fast, CVS tends to its things more leasurely and with higher network impact. Benchmarking is not really useful since both systems do different things.

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David Kastrup
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