VCS comparison table

[David Lang]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:

>
> I don't understand the thrust of this, either.  As I understand the
> operation you're talking about, it doesn't have anything to do with a
> branch; you'd just be whipping the working tree around to different
> versions.  That should be O(diff) on any modern VCS.

on many modern VCS systems it's O(n) on the number of changes (start from where 
you are and apply the patch to change it to rev -1, then apply the patch to 
change it to rev -2, etc)

on git it's O(1) (write the new files into place)

David Lang