From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:09:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504291006450.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050429163705.GU21897@waste.org>



On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
> That's because no one paid attention until I posted performance
> numbers comparing it to git! Mercurial's goals are:
> 
> - to scale to the kernel development process
> - to do clone/pull style development
> - to be efficient in CPU, memory, bandwidth, and disk space
>   for all the common SCM operations
> - to have strong repo integrity

Ok, sounds good. Have you looked at how it scales over time, ie what 
happens with files that have a lot of delta's?

Let's see how these things work out..

		Linus