Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 07:08:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > If you're checking in a change to 1000+ files, you're doing
> > something wrong.
> 
> arch or subsystem merge?

No, if it's a merge, you just suck in all the already-compressed objects.  

You never compress anything new - you get the objects, you update your
tree index, and you're done. No overhead anywhere - a clean merge may
_look_ like it's changing thousands of files, but it didn't change a
single _object_ anywhere, it just re-arranged the objects and created a
new view of them.

Most merges are literally just a tree-level thing. Sometimes you have to 
do a content merge, but that tends to be a file or two.

			Linus
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