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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP
 - problems
From: davidkmuir@gmail.com (David Muir)

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