From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:39:52 -0400 Message-ID: <20050624133952.GB7445@thunk.org> References: <42B9E536.60704@pobox.com> <20050623235634.GC14426@waste.org> <20050624064101.GB14292@pasky.ji.cz> <20050624130604.GK17715@g5.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Petr Baudis , mercurial@selenic.com, Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 24 15:37:09 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DloMe-0004tw-6T for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:37:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262423AbVFXNm5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:42:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262505AbVFXNm5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:42:57 -0400 Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:6061 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262423AbVFXNkM (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:40:12 -0400 Received: from root (helo=think.thunk.org) by thunker.thunk.org with local-esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DloPR-0000nW-00; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:39:53 -0400 Received: from tytso by think.thunk.org with local (Exim 4.51) id 1DloPQ-0003zU-Th; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:39:52 -0400 To: Andrea Arcangeli Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Ts'o , Andrea Arcangeli , Petr Baudis , mercurial@selenic.com, Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050624130604.GK17715@g5.random> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 03:06:04PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 08:41:01AM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > > Cool. Except where the concepts are just different, Cogito mostly > > appears at least equally simple to use as Mercurial. Yes, some features > > are missing yet. I hope to fix that soon. :-) > > The user interface and network protocol isn't the big deal, the big deal > is the more efficient on-disk storage format IMHO. E2fsprogs with the full revision history imported into git is 100 megs, and that's with deltas. E2fsprogs imported into Mercurial is 17 megs (and actually, the imported repository was just a tad bit smaller than e2fsprogs' BK repository). Which do you think is going to be faster to operate from a cold start using 4200 rpm laptop drives? :-) - Ted