On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 11:24:13PM +0200, Peter Kümmel wrote: > > [..] > >That's not a joke, it's not made up. I am honestly not aware > >of any single operation, not even artificial scenarios, where > >git performs worse than svn. > > Maybe this one: > > time svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk > real 0m27.906s > user 0m4.120s > sys 0m5.120s > > time git clone git://gitorious.org/lyx/lyx.git > real 2m41.146s > user 0m34.820s > sys 0m29.320s
Ok, I have to admit that I never timed that. > OK, we have the complete history with git, but often this > isn't of interest: > > time git clone --depth 1 git://gitorious.org/lyx/lyx.git > real 0m15.568s > user 0m1.960s > sys 0m3.230s > > Is it possible to push/pull from such a clone? Not sure, I never used --depth, according to the man page it's not possible to pull/push, but it also says it's sufficient to create patches from it, so this would be even a theoretical option for people without commit rights. I doubt that's a good trade-off, though. Andre'
