yet another dvcs shootout (this time python-devel)

[Paul Moore]

2008/11/5 Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr>:
> According to Arne Bab.:
>> $ time bzr branch http://code.python.org/python/3.0
>> real    22m9.619s
>> user    11m29.244s
>> sys     0m14.302s
>>
>> $ time hg clone http://code.python.org/hg/branches/py3k/
>> real    0m40.831s
>> user    0m14.545s
>> sys     0m3.896s
>
> I see that it has not been improved that much since the last time I played
> with it...  This is still horribly slow...

My impression is that the Bazaar developers' answer would be that you
should use a shared repository, and then branches after the first will
be a lot faster. Personally, I find this argument bogus - I want the
freedom to organise my repos as I prefer.

Paul.