Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark

Linus Torvalds
2005-04-29T17:07:49Z

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> That's because no one paid attention until I posted performance
> numbers comparing it to git! Mercurial's goals are:
>
> - to scale to the kernel development process
> - to do clone/pull style development
> - to be efficient in CPU, memory, bandwidth, and disk space
> for all the common SCM operations
> - to have strong repo integrity

Ok, sounds good. Have you looked at how it scales over time, ie what
happens with files that have a lot of delta's?

Let's see how these things work out..

Linus