Bazaar performance

[Matthieu Moy]

Charles Duffy <Charles_Duffy at messageone.com> writes:

> That's /very/ counter to my experience at a former employer
> revisioning our own branch of the Gentoo portage tree. (Don't ask why
> we didn't use overlays -- I don't want to go into it now).
>
> The (then-experimental) packs branch of bzr outperformed both
> mercurial and git for the operations I tested; however, I was using
> local access only (no sftp involved); I don't think that the smart
> server was fully functional with packs at the time, but when this went
> to production, smart server access was in use.

How long was your history?

Did you import the history of your Gentoo tree, or just imported the
current state as revision 1?

bzr scales relatively well with the number of files, but long history
kills its performance usually.

-- 
Matthieu