Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark

Matt Mackall
2005-05-03T04:27:50Z

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 09:24:54PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Mon, 2 May 2005, Matt Mackall wrote:
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> > 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.

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