Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 May 2005 21:27:39 -0700 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark |
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On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 09:24:54PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 2 May 2005, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > > It's still simple in Mercurial, but more importantly Mercurial _won't > > need it_. Dropping history is a work-around, not a feature. > > Side note: this is what Larry thought about BK too. Until three years had > passed, and the ChangeSet file was many megabytes in size. Even slow > growth ends up being big growth in the end.. > > We had been talking about pruning the BK history as long back as a year > ago.
Ok, I'll implement it on my red eye flight tonight. But Mercurial won't suffer from the O(filesize) problem of BK.
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