[Python-Dev] Source control tools

Tue Jun 13 10:27:17 CEST 2006

On 2006年6月12日 23:31:14 +0200, Thomas Wouters wrote:
> I did partial imports into Mercurial and Bazaar-NG, but I got interrupted
> and couldn't draw any conclusions -- although from looking at the
> implementation, I don't think they'd scale very well at the moment (but that
> could probably be fixed.)

Maybe you benchmarked a Tailor deficiency here, but Mercurial scales very
well. People use it for work on the Linux kernel etc.
Compared to that, Bazaar-NG seems to reach limits already when working on
it's own code/repository.
Here is a paper comparing different DVCS for the FreeBSD ports tree (one of
the largest CVS repositories that exists ;-)):
http://www.keltia.net/BSDCan/slides.pdf
Kind regards,
Alexander