At what point does the push model degrade?

[Mathieu Lacage]

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 11:45 -0500, Ezra.Smith at bentley.com wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> We're looking to change over to Mercurial because we like a lot of the
> benefits. But we're suffering from a "last mile" problem. Most of the
> plan is obvious to us, but we're not entirely sure how to maintain our
> central repository (note: we definitely do need one). Although we have a
> lot of developers, the most working on any given repository isn't that
> large, maybe 50-100. Will a push model scale to that size? Does anyone
> have experience with pushing to a central repository with a lot of
> developers? And at what point do you think that a centralized push
> system will break down?

It really all depends on the statistical distribution of the
"time-of-commit" over a day. If you could provide one, it would be
trivial to give you an answer.

Mathieu