Hi, I tried to refrain from commenting in this thread, because I do not want to encourage people just to use msysGit and never even attempt to fix their own issues. But I cannot let this go uncommented: On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote: > IMO the key difference between hg and git is the storage model: hg > stores deltas, while git stores snapshots. That would mean that certain > operations are theoretically faster in git (e.g. checkout, diff) while > others faster in hg, although with git's packed format I guess there's > no operation faster in hg. This means that it doesn't matter how much > hg's python code improves, or if they even re-write parts in C, they > will never be able to match git's performance (unless they change the > storage model, which essentially means changing the whole design -- > won't happen). That is wrong. "git log -- <file>" will always be slightly faster in Mercurial, for all the reasons you mentioned. In addition, Mercurial _has_ parts re-written in C for performance, which renders it not-exactly more portable if you ask me. Last time I checked, there was no way to compile a Python module with MinGW (or for that matter, Python itself), but you needed MSVC... Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html