Bazaar performance

Teemu Likonen tlikonen at iki.fi
Sun May 18 07:39:39 BST 2008


Ian Clatworthy wrote (2008-05-18 10:47 +1000):

> Teemu Likonen wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, I wonder what this means in BzrVsGit document:
> > 
> >     To maintain performance, Git repositories require packing. The
> >     pack technology recently added to Bazaar is smart enough to do
> >     this for you. You can pack when you want but if you don't,
> >     things will still run well over time.[1]
> 
> The text was correct at the time it was written. Feel free to update
> it.

Oh, I didn't realize it was a wiki page. I removed the above text
because I couldn't find anything in it which supports bzr. But to keep
"balance" I also added more accurate information about storage
efficiency. In short, git repository can be packed really efficiently
with "git repack" but over time the average size of the repo remains
smaller in Bazaar.



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