From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:56:54 GMT Subject: Re: Google Code: Support for Mercurial and Analysis of Git and Mercurial Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <49F475B8.20903@gmail.com> Hi, On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, A Large Angry SCM wrote: > Another important criteria was which, both or neither of Git and Hg > would actually work and perform well on top of Google Code's underling > storage system and except to mention they would be using Bigtable, the > report did not discuss this. Git on top of Bigtable will not perform > well. Actually, did we not arrive at the conclusion that it could perform well at least with the filesystem layer on top of big table, but even better if the big tables stored certain chunks (not really all that different from the chunks needed for mirror-sync!)? Back when I discussed this with a Googler, it was all too obvious that they are not interested (and in the meantime I understand why, see my other mail). Ciao, Dscho