Re: git source mirrors inactive

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 26.05.2011 12:16, schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
> > Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:06:37 +0200
> > From: Andreas Röhler<address@hidden>
> > Cc: Stefan Monnier<address@hidden>,
> >         Emacs developers<address@hidden>
> >
> > Thanks, below still an example pointing at the convenience of working
> > from git:
> >
> > # time git log -n 2 python.el
> > [...]
> > real    0m0.122s
> > user    0m0.020s
> > sys     0m0.024s
> >
> > # time bzr log -l 2 python.el
> > [...]
> > real    0m29.459s
> > user    0m24.554s
> > sys     0m0.716s
>
> It is meaningless to pick up a random command and compare based on
> that command alone.  Here's another meaningless comparison:
>
>    address@hidden:~/bzr/emacs/trunk$ time bzr annotate src/xdisp.c>  /dev/null
>    real    1m43.832s
>    user    1m25.740s
>    sys     0m3.110s
>    address@hidden:~/git/emacs$ time git annotate src/xdisp.c>  /dev/null
>    real    5m9.646s
>    user    4m18.400s
>    sys     0m3.580s
>
> I don't know how frequently you need to know the last 2 changes of
> python.el, but the number of times I needed to annotate xdisp.c during
> the last 2 years is about twice a week.  I will gladly trade a 29-sec
> wait for 3.5 min wait.  YMMV.

Interesting, thanks.

BTW found a text discussing that as special slowness in git, with some 
recommendation to work around

http://ondioline.org/mail/bitkeeper-and-the-genesis-of-git

As for the daily work indeed I have a look quite often at the last commits.

Andreas