Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 3, 2005, 04:24 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505022123270.3594@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050503000011.GA22038@waste.org>

On Mon, 2 May 2005, Matt Mackall wrote:

> 
> It's still simple in Mercurial, but more importantly Mercurial _won't
> need it_. Dropping history is a work-around, not a feature.

Side note: this is what Larry thought about BK too. Until three years had passed, and the ChangeSet file was many megabytes in size. Even slow growth ends up being big growth in the end..

We had been talking about pruning the BK history as long back as a year ago.

		Linus

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