Re: Moving to bzr?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: dhruva <address@hidden>,
>     address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:50:51 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> 
>  > Is "bzr pull" the equivalent of "cvs up -d"?  That is, is that the
>  > command to resync with the master repository?  Because if it is, it is
>  > slower than CVS by a large margin (but so is git's 3 min, so I assume
>  > "bzr pull" is not the equivalent of "cvs up -d").
> 
> Are you testing on Windows?  git has historically had performance
> problems on Windows because its Unix-oriented optimizations are often
> pessimizations on Windows.

No, I didn't mean to say that git is slow _for_me_.  I was referring
to the git performance numbers by the OP:

> > I am updating bzr from their development branch and hence have the
> > latest and greatest. When I run a 'bzr pull' on Emacs repo daily, it
> > is running for >15 mins versus less than 3 mins for git. This is a
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"Less than 3 mins" is too slow, if what I've heard about git is
correct.  Maybe the OP was testing that on Windows.