"Hyrum K. Wright" <hyrum_wri...@mail.utexas.edu> writes: > This feels really bizarre. Isn't checkout just "create an incomplete > directory, then update it"? As such, one would think the performance > would be comparable. Bizarre indeed....
I assume the references to improved update performance refer to update over a few revisions near HEAD; with a small number of working copy changes the locking can dominate. Checkout is like update from r0 to HEAD; the large number of working copy operations mean that locking no longer dominates. -- Philip
