From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 22:19:57 +0200 Message-ID: <20050429201957.GJ17379@opteron.random> References: <20050426004111.GI21897@waste.org> <20050429060157.GS21897@waste.org> <3817.10.10.10.24.1114756831.squirrel@linux1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Matt Mackall , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 29 22:13:07 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DRbqo-0005cC-JH for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 22:12:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262951AbVD2URO (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:17:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262945AbVD2UP3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:15:29 -0400 Received: from ppp-217-133-42-200.cust-adsl.tiscali.it ([217.133.42.200]:29544 "EHLO opteron.random") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262384AbVD2UOw (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:14:52 -0400 Received: by opteron.random (Postfix, from userid 500) id E598A1C1593; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 22:19:57 +0200 (CEST) To: Sean Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3817.10.10.10.24.1114756831.squirrel@linux1> X-GPG-Key: 1024D/68B9CB43 13D9 8355 295F 4823 7C49 C012 DFA1 686E 68B9 CB43 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 02:40:31AM -0400, Sean wrote: > There isn't anything preventing optomized transfer protocols for git. such a system might fall apart under load, converting on the fly from git to network-optimized format sound quite expensive operation, even ignorign the initial decompression of the payload. If something it should be pre-converted to mercurial, so you checkout from mercurial and you apply to local git.