Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch 2.0 -- first source

[Dmitriy Nikitinskiy]

Miles Bader wrote:
> 2005/7/12, nick <address@hidden>:
>
> > Wow. Mercurial really rocks!
> > They repository consume less space (2,069,732)  than tla-1.x (2,994,487)
> > and revc (14,498,601) on same data.
> > It's faster than revc on same data.
>
>
> Can you comment on my impression that mercurial[*] seems to lack
> useful rename support?  When I tried it, it treated renames as
> add+delete (which screws up merging).
>
> If true, it's a fatal flaw I think.
>
> [*] I earlier referred to it incorrectly as "mercury".

I show this timings generally for Arch developers.
Why _small_ (distrib size 81760 bytes!), written on python
SCM with compressed delta format of repository faster than
written on C with snapshot based repository?

Regards,
Dmitriy