On 22/08/11 17:44, Lester Caine wrote: > Lester Caine wrote: >> Just for the record ... the libreoffice clone I started 9 hours ago is >> still going strong, and I'm estimating that it will finish some time >> tomorrow afternoon, another 20 hours or so. A single huge repo is going >> to take time to handle? Or am I doing something wrong? All I've done at >> the moment is followed the instructions Pierre directed me to ... they >> were not on the original notes I looked at. > > I've been away from home over the weekend stuck in an exhibition hall, > so I left the libreoffice clone via hggit running ... It's still > running this morning 4 days later. I'll leave it to finish now. The > straight git clone did run in under an hour, but obviously the cross > DVCS processes need a lot more work :( The other git hosted projects I > am working with work with a modular setup using submodule, and this > does not present the same problem, creating hg clones reasonably quickly. > > So is the current question one of better making the case for one over > the other? On the existing RFC there is little detail which covers the > reasons that people who are working cross platform DO have a problem > with git, and why currently hg is providing a clean transparent > platform. Both will do the job that it seems is being targeted, even > if I disagree that it's the right target, but neither are clear front > runners? It would seem however that a hybrid system supporting both is > probably still some way off :( >
There's something weird in HG's network stack. I tried doing grabbing an svn repository with hg, and it took over an hour to get part of the way through. Bazaar was able to grab the whole repo in 2-3 minutes. Haven't tried with git though. David -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
