Re: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat.

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From: demerphq
Subject: Re: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat.
Date: 10:34 on 23 Dec 2006
On 12/23/06, Yossi Kreinin <yossi.kreinin@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> >
> > In case you didn't notice, that's not been true for rather a while.
>
> Sure, but whoever got hooked on bk can't easily switch to something else now,
> can they?
>
> >
> > And the assertion that all linux fans were into bitkeeper was wrong
> > too: it clearly divided the community.
>
> Probably. I didn't make this assertion. I was talking about people I actually
> know. Of course a connection to Linux is not a connection to a novel distributed
> biological organism with a synchronized opinion on every subject.
>
>  > Linus wrote something better  than bitkeeper in a few weeks anyway.
>
> Are you sure it's better? AFAIK git doesn't even keep diffs but the whole pile
> of versions. But hey - Linux has a tradition of wasting your disk space.

From the git documentation:

"For example the Mozilla repository is reported to be almost 12 GiB
when stored in SVN using the fsfs backend. The fsfs backend also
requires over 240,000 files in one directory to record all 240,000
commits made over the 10 year project history. The exact same history
is stored in Git by only two files totaling just over 420 MiB. SVN
requires 30x the disk space to store the same history."

http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSvnComparsion

Yves
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