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Re:SDL Moves to GitHub by formerly_proven on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:06PM (#26083015)
Git is and always was very fast. Hg used to be much much slower, and still is.
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Re:SDL Moves to GitHub by lifthrasiir on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:23PM (#26083212)
Both were still very faster than the mainstream solution at the time that is Subversion. I don't think Git could achieve the domination comparable to today without Github for that reason.
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Re:SDL Moves to GitHub by gmueckl on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @07:36PM (#26084471)
Mercurial beats git in a fair bechmark on a large repository by now. As far as I know, no other DVCS received similar dedicated optimizations.

(Microsoft worked around git by shimming a fake file system driver below the local repository to make it scale enouth to cover the Windows codebase. It's all Windows exclusive and not part of git, so it doesn't really count).

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Re:SDL Moves to GitHub by ammo1662 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:26PM (#26085745)
They asked to add it to Git, however they are rejected.
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