Re: Why Git is so fast (was: Re: Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach)

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

2009/4/30 Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>:
> Yet, this point is misleading because when people gives to Git the
> reputation of being faster, this is certainly from comparison of
> operations performed on the same source tree.  Who cares about scenarios
> for which the tool was not designed?  Those "enterprise configuration
> management repositories" are not what Git was designed for indeed, but

Especially when no sane developer will put in his repository the toolchain
(pre-compiled. For all supported platforms!), all the supporting tools
(like grep,
find, etc.Pre-compiled _and_ source), the in-house framework (pre-compiled
and source, again), firmware (pre-compiled and put in the repository weekly),
and operating system code (pre-compiled, with firmware-specific drivers,
updated, you guessed it, weekly), and well, there is the project itself (Java or
C++, and documentation in .doc and .xls)...
Now, what kind of self-hating idiot will design a system for that kind of abuse?
(And if someone says that's is not true in the most enterprise
f$%cking configurations,
he definitely hasn't had to live through big enough number of them).