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Re:Scaling Mercurial at Facebook by cstejerean on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @06:46PM (#7020819)
Mercurial itself runs into issues way before git does, it's just that Facebook has essentially gutted a bunch of things out Mercurial in order to make the resulting thing fast (punting on things like computing status, downloading diffs, etc).
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Re:Scaling Mercurial at Facebook by Sssnake on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @08:20PM (#7021111)
No, git runs into issues before mercurial does. Just saying the opposite of reality doesn't make it so.
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Re:Scaling Mercurial at Facebook by ibrahima on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @12:37AM (#7021903)
Did you even read the post? Stock git is significantly faster than stock mercurial, it's only after they hack it up that they make it faster.
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Re:Scaling Mercurial at Facebook by jordigh on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @08:39AM (#7023347)
There are some operations in which git is way slower than Mercurial. Two examples are cloning and blame/annotate. git's data structures are optimised for some operations, but not for others.
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Re:Scaling Mercurial at Facebook by Sssnake on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @06:55PM (#7027764)
Did you? It isn't about speed, it is about scaling.
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