Brief article on benchmarks of Python repository with leading DVCSen

[David Cournapeau]

Paul Moore wrote:
>
> You may have misunderstood me - at the moment, I hack on Python using
> Mercurial, based on the available hg mirror of Python trunk. The fact
> that the "official" repo is in Subversion doesn't make any difference
> to me - my interaction is by means of hg clone, local work in hg, and
> submission of patches.
>   

It does not make difference to you because you do not merge or use
branches, I guess. That's the problem of having something based on svn -
it is hard to translate a high level operation done in
hg/bzr/git/whatever back to svn. For example, I am not sure git-svn cat
push back a tag created it git, and git-svn man page explictly says to
avoid non linear history.

David