Re: Why Git is so fast (was: Re: Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach)

2009/4/30 Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref]:

Yet, this point is misleading because when people gives to Git the
reputation of being faster, this is certainly from comparison of
operations performed on the same source tree.  Who cares about scenarios
for which the tool was not designed?  Those "enterprise configuration
management repositories" are not what Git was designed for indeed, but

Especially when no sane developer will put in his repository the toolchain
(pre-compiled. For all supported platforms!), all the supporting tools
(like grep,
find, etc.Pre-compiled _and_ source), the in-house framework (pre-compiled
and source, again), firmware (pre-compiled and put in the repository weekly),
and operating system code (pre-compiled, with firmware-specific drivers,
updated, you guessed it, weekly), and well, there is the project itself (Java or
C++, and documentation in .doc and .xls)...
Now, what kind of self-hating idiot will design a system for that kind of abuse?
(And if someone says that's is not true in the most enterprise
f$%cking configurations,
he definitely hasn't had to live through big enough number of them).