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What do LWN-ers use ?

What do LWN-ers use ?

Posted Mar 16, 2008 18:49 UTC (Sun) by astrophoenix (subscriber, #13528)
In reply to: What do LWN-ers use ? by johill
Parent article: Emacs chooses Bazaar

interesting. I can tell you that when you do keep the full history around, mercurial is a lot more space-efficient than git. and if you are making a new copy of a tree on the same filesystem, mercurial hard-links everything, so it's still cheap.


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What do LWN-ers use ?

Posted Mar 17, 2008 4:10 UTC (Mon) by dlang (subscriber, #313) [Link]

git has the option to use hard links when doing a clone. I've also seen some very spectacular
compression achieved with git packs. are you possibly comparing to a git repository that
hasn't been packed?

What do LWN-ers use ?

Posted Mar 19, 2008 20:36 UTC (Wed) by astrophoenix (subscriber, #13528) [Link]

you're probably correct; I was probably comparing an unpacked git repo to 
a mercurial repo when I said mercurial took less space. 

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