On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Ok, thanks for pointing that out. I was thinking that maybe 'git blame' would also be slightly faster on hg, but I really don't know. Anyway, I think for most operations git would always be faster, and more importantly; some essential operations will be faster (checkout, diff <committish>). -- Felipe Contreras -- 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