yet another dvcs shootout (this time python-devel)

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

That, and the difference between 22m and ~1m for an initial clone for
someone who just wants to start contributing is huge!
-parren