Hi, I think you missed out "Git is small" as the 4th area. I am not sure what to make of it though. Another comparison made just over half a year ago had Bazaar win in this department, so did Git make a huge improvement in this area over the past half a year, or was the comparison (unintentionally) rigged in Git's favour? Also, did the author detect a bug? I note the comment that "the second Bzr number is after I ran 'bzr pack', which I thought would make it smaller, but ended up making it much, much larger for some reason." Regards, Eugene P.S.: The comparison I mentioned is available at: <a href="http://www.infoq.com/articles/dvcs-guide">http://www.infoq.com/articles/dvcs-guide</a> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Elliot Murphy <<a href="mailto:elliot@canonical.com">elliot@canonical.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I while I use bzr and launchpad every single day, I really respect the work done at GitHub, and just saw this site: <a href="http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/" target="_blank">http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/</a> Git is listed as better than bzr in 4 areas: - cheap local branching - git is fast - the staging area I don't understand why git is supposed to be better than bzr at cheap local branching, perhaps this is a case of not having a shared repo by default causes a surface evaluation to make git look better here. I haven't investigated the claim about speed, but the numbers are posted and the benchmarking was done with publicly available branches of the django project, so it would be interesting to get confirmation on these. I disagree with the claim that the staging area makes git better than bzr but I can see how it's a subjective thing - for me, shelve works great to handle this. Of course, shelve is not in the core commands that bzr ships... I disagree that GitHub is the only social network for code because I use launchpad the same way that GitHub is described here, but GitHub has plenty of neat features that I drool over and would like to see in launchpad (and launchpad has plenty of features that I would miss sorely if I used GitHub exclusively). So I'd say this one should be a tie, and it's totally fair for the GitHub folks to pitch GitHub as a reason to choose git. Anyway, interesting stuff to look at. -- Elliot Murphy | <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Estatik/" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~statik/</a> </blockquote></div>