Re: [Monotone-devel] linus talk on git

[Nuno Lucas]

On 5/21/07, Brian May <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>>> "J" == J Decker <J> writes:
>     J> Harsh .... (also beware of falling rants) Unforutnatly,
>     J> although monotone has become much much better for performance
>     J> issues... it was knocked out of the world of 'valid'
>     J> distributed version control systems because of speed.
>
> Maybe I got this wrong, but based on what I have seen so far of this
> talk, I couldn't help but think that Linus didn't consult the Monotone
> developers with his concerns about speed, why it was slow, or how much
> work it would take to improve its speed.

Actually, the first big performance patch was sent from Linus himself.
If I'm not mistaken, that was the preliminar support for the inode
"prints".

Taking into account Linus is far from a "C++ guy", I would think he
tried hard to use monotone.

> Maybe he was just itching to write his own system.

Most probably ;-)


Regards,
~Nuno Lucas