On Tue, 3 May 2011 14:47:21 +0200 (MEST) "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Brecht Machiels<brecht@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've seen several independent benchmarks (they should be easy to find), > > and git is indeed the fastest and it's repositories are the smallest. > > It doesn't really matter which tool is the fastest at a specific action, > but if the tool's performance is acceptable. "Acceptable" has a bit of a range. While 5 seconds for some operation might be considered acceptable, < 1 second would be a lot more pleasant to use. > While I guess that git will be faster overall compared to hg, I don't > expect it would be a performance issue to use either tool for our repository. I would not have expected certain problems with svn either. Unfortunately expectations aren't always met. :-) I'd also prefer benchmarks with the Haiku repository over "independent" ones performed with other test data. CU, Ingo