On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 03:12:44AM -0800, Chris Torek wrote: > On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM Josef Wolf <jw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Git is famously *fast* (as compared to most of the systems that came > before or at the same time anyway). In the old days when I used CVS > and Subversion and the like, we'd run a commit or update, and then go > out for coffee or lunch or whatever, because we knew we were not > going to be able to do anything for another ten minutes or perhaps > even an hour or more. Then Git came along and we'd run "git checkout" > or "git commit" and it would say it was done, often without even a > noticeable pause, and we'd wonder if it actually did anything at all. Well, I know the days of CVS. I even know the days of RCS. And yeah, bak in those days you used to cross your fingers hoping that all will go well while drinking the coffee. I think there is more into git than speed. -- Josef Wolf jw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
