From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sean" Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 15:02:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1785.10.10.10.24.1115060548.squirrel@linux1> References: <118833cc05042908181d09bdfd@mail.gmail.com><118833cc05042908181d09bdfd@mail.gmail.com> <20050429165232.GV21897@waste.org> <427650E7.2000802@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: "Matt Mackall" , "Morten Welinder" , "Linus Torvalds" , "linux-kernel" , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 02 20:57:20 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DSg5j-0000mT-CE for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 02 May 2005 20:56:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261654AbVEBTCe (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 15:02:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261691AbVEBTCe (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 15:02:34 -0400 Received: from simmts12.bellnexxia.net ([206.47.199.141]:4796 "EHLO simmts12-srv.bellnexxia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261654AbVEBTC3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 15:02:29 -0400 Received: from linux1 ([69.156.111.46]) by simmts12-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050502190229.HKLR1542.simmts12-srv.bellnexxia.net@linux1>; Mon, 2 May 2005 15:02:29 -0400 Received: from linux1 (linux1.attic.local [127.0.0.1]) by linux1 (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j42J2Q6s026397; Mon, 2 May 2005 15:02:27 -0400 Received: from 10.10.10.24 (SquirrelMail authenticated user sean) by linux1 with HTTP; Mon, 2 May 2005 15:02:28 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <427650E7.2000802@tmr.com> To: "Bill Davidsen" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4-2 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 2, 2005 12:10 pm, Bill Davidsen said: > Now look at pulling 41MB over a T1 link. All of a sudden I care bigtime! > I want very much to use my bandwidth for other things, I don't want 41MB > added to my backup, etc. Disk space is cheap, but unless you ignore > backups and have an OC3 or so, these numbers are large enough to be > irritating. Not a huge issue, just one of those "piss me off every time > I do it" things. That 41MB or lets say 200MB is spread over several months between releases. Pulling once a day from the git public repository, makes this barely noticeable. In the future there may be optimized protocols to handle this more efficiently. You bring up a good point about backups though. Eventually it might be nice to have a utility that exports/imports a git repository in a flat file using deltas rather than snapshots. Such an export format would make backups and tarballs cheaper. Sean