From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Mackall Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 21:27:39 -0700 Message-ID: <20050503042739.GF22038@waste.org> References: <20050429165232.GV21897@waste.org> <427650E7.2000802@tmr.com> <20050502223002.GP21897@waste.org> <20050503000011.GA22038@waste.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Bill Davidsen , Morten Welinder , Sean , linux-kernel , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 03 06:21:48 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DSouh-0005y2-4x for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 06:21:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261385AbVECE1u (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 00:27:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261388AbVECE1u (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 00:27:50 -0400 Received: from waste.org ([216.27.176.166]:4559 "EHLO waste.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261385AbVECE1r (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 00:27:47 -0400 Received: from waste.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by waste.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-1) with ESMTP id j434Re3W022731 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 2 May 2005 23:27:40 -0500 Received: (from oxymoron@localhost) by waste.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j434RdTa022728; Mon, 2 May 2005 23:27:39 -0500 To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 09:24:54PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 2 May 2005, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > > It's still simple in Mercurial, but more importantly Mercurial _won't > > need it_. Dropping history is a work-around, not a feature. > > Side note: this is what Larry thought about BK too. Until three years had > passed, and the ChangeSet file was many megabytes in size. Even slow > growth ends up being big growth in the end.. > > We had been talking about pruning the BK history as long back as a year > ago. Ok, I'll implement it on my red eye flight tonight. But Mercurial won't suffer from the O(filesize) problem of BK. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.