On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.comwrote:
I laughed at this... GIT has a number of negatives, but poor speed is not one of them especially if you're used to working with SVN and a remote server. Maybe this is just a windows issue? GIT leaves a lot of work to the filesystem.
And so to the disk. If the disk or the controller sucks or is simply old (not everyone has shiny new hardware), you're also damn slow. What should also not be underestimated is the diskspace demand of a GIT repo - not everyone has the money to buy new, high-sized disks (or has not the possibility to upgrade, especially laptop users). Of course, the diskspace issue can be solved partially by splitting that what is now one big SVN repo to multiple smaller ones - a standard GIT pull should e.g. not include the custom MWF stuff or the sources of the helper tools/scripts and whatever is hidden in the deep world of svnroot. Marco