Re: Does anyone have any benchmarks against CVS?

From: david@lang.hm <david@lang.hm>
Date: Jun 11, 2007, 22:06 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706111505030.6457@asgard.lang.hm>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90706111454i5f4898b5kd77d18f4a893904e@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Martin Langhoff wrote:

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> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:54:50 +1200
> From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
> To: "linux@horizon.com" <linux@horizon.com>
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Does anyone have any benchmarks against CVS?
> 
> On 11 Jun 2007 05:04:51 -0400, linux@horizon.com <linux@horizon.com> wrote:
>>  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.
>
> It _will_ be a bit of an apple-to-oranges comparison, but you could
> use a few large-ish projects that have a published GIT gateway.
> Measure time and bw use of
>
>   - cvs co vs git clone

given that the result of this is that cvs gives you one version and git clone gives you the entire history you should probably also test what it takes to checkout an older version after doing the first one.

David Lang

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>   - cvs status vs git status
>   - cvs update vs git pull
>   - cvs log (at top level) vs git log
>   - cvs log path/to/file vs git log path/to/file
>
> I would suggest
>
> - Moodle (for which I maintain an http-fetchable repo at
> http://git.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodler2.git )
> - PostgreSQL (repo.or.cz hosts a repo)
>
> cheers
>
>
> m
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