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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark
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On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 12:30:52AM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> Nothing a little caching can't solve.  Given that git's objects are
> immutable caching is especially easy to do, you can have the delta
> reference indexes in the filename.

Rather than creating delta reference indexes we can as well use
mercurial that uses them as primary storage.

git is the _storage_ filesystem, if we can't use it but we've to create
another different representation to do efficient network download, we
can as well the more efficient representation instead of git, that's
what mercurial does AFIK.