The following tests are performed on my Macbook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5, 4 GB memory. Other data: Git: 1.7.3.1 OSX, 1.7.1 in Haiku Hg: 1.8.3 Haiku GCC4, revision 40045 1 GB RAM Virtualbox 4.0.6 === Checkout on Mac OS X: === GIT over SSH real 2m37.450s user 0m40.280s sys 0m13.552s HG over SSH real 11m22.635s user 2m25.870s sys 0m56.424s HG over HTTP real 5m4.333s user 2m36.783s sys 0m33.859s === Checkout on Haiku === GIT over GIT real 4m29.744s user 0m33.394s sys 0m46.554s HG over HTTP real 12m40.443s user 2m55.937s sys 3m24.307s === Get the working copy back 500 changesets === GIT: git checkout babe5a81 real 0m18.432s user 0m2.375s sys 0m6.294s HG: hg update -r -500 real 0m14.154s user 0m2.251s sys 0m5.085s === Get the working copy back 10000 changesets === GIT: git checkout babe5a81 real 3m6.691s user 0m5.175s sys 0m35.065s HG: hg update -r -10000 real 3m29.001s user 0m14.199s sys 0m50.017s === Get an overview of changes in the repository (5 modified files) === GIT: git status real 0m7.759s user 0m0.403s sys 0m2.290s HG: hg status real 0m4.071s user 0m0.891s sys 0m1.758s === Get a diff between HEAD and 20 revisions back === GIT: git --no-pager diff -r7d0410039 real 0m3.360s user 0m1.155s sys 0m1.628s HG: hg diff -r -20 real 0m6.972s user 0m3.427s sys 0m2.756s === Get a log of the last 1000 commits === GIT: git log -n 1000 real 0m0.294s user 0m0.133s sys 0m0.082s HG: hg log --limit 1000 real 0m0.890s user 0m0.548s sys 0m0.235s === Get the log of the trunk/src/system/kernel/team.cpp === GIT: git --no-pager log src/system/kernel/team.cpp real 0m4.713s user 0m2.091s sys 0m0.451s HG: hg log src/system/kernel/team.cpp real 0m0.743s user 0m0.230s sys 0m0.208s