yet another dvcs shootout (this time python-devel)

[Paul Moore]

2008/11/5 Peter Arrenbrecht <peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com>:
> 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

That (the barrier for entry for a new user who wants to contribute) is
a very good point! I hope you don't mind if I mention it in the
python-dev thread.

Paul.