Toward a Better Discussion of Parrot's Future VCS Options

[Michael Peters]

On 05/04/2010 04:42 PM, Allison Randal wrote:

> Ah, that makes sense. When people talked about "speed" in the IRC
> discussion it really didn't make sense, as svn and git are about
> equivalent in day-to-day usage terms.

I'm definitely on the outside of this discussion, but I have to 
completely disagree with this statement. Git is amazingly fast for lots 
of different things. Any action involving the history (diff across 
versions, log, etc) is considerably faster with Git. In fact I haven't 
found any action that wasn't noticeably faster in Git. Sometimes we're 
talking about something that's just a couple of seconds in svn but less 
than a second in Git, so the overall savings aren't huge. But svn crawls 
on lots of things because it has to hit the network for actions that Git 
does not.

There are still times when I'm using Git that I think that something 
must have gone wrong because it couldn't have succeeded that quickly. 
Guess that's what being "trained" by svn does to you :)

-- 
Michael Peters
Plus Three, LP