Admittedly it was probably either the environment or the remote server causing the problem. I was running it under Cygwin on Vista, and it was a fairly huge project. I was running git under the same environment for the same thing (with a different remote origin), and even then I noticed git was much more snappy.
It's nowhere near an actual analysis, just my experience in my limited use (and probably influenced quite a bit by things that I've heard).
Re:Poll: Version Control
by silentbicycle on Friday October 10, 2008 @11:29AM
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Ok.
(I was using an actual timer when I compared them.)
Not knee-jerk arguing, genuinely curious. When I compared them on Windows and OpenBSD, I never had a speed difference of more than about 5% (not counting git db repacking), even with a project that had 40,000+ commits, 10+ very active branches, and about 2 GB of code + data.