Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261384AbVECEXG (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 00:23:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261380AbVECEXG (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 00:23:06 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:4044 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261381AbVECEXA (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2005 00:23:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 21:24:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Matt Mackall cc: Bill Davidsen , Morten Welinder , Sean , linux-kernel , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark In-Reply-To: <20050503000011.GA22038@waste.org> Message-ID: References: <20050429165232.GV21897@waste.org> <427650E7.2000802@tmr.com> <20050502223002.GP21897@waste.org> <20050503000011.GA22038@waste.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 700 Lines: 20 On Mon, 2 May 2005, Matt Mackall wrote: > > It's still simple in Mercurial, but more importantly Mercurial _won't > need it_. Dropping history is a work-around, not a feature. Side note: this is what Larry thought about BK too. Until three years had passed, and the ChangeSet file was many megabytes in size. Even slow growth ends up being big growth in the end.. We had been talking about pruning the BK history as long back as a year ago. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/