Re: git source mirrors inactive

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:06:37 +0200
> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@online.de>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
> 	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> Thanks, below still an example pointing at the convenience of working 
> from git:
> 
> # time git log -n 2 python.el
> [...]
> real	0m0.122s
> user	0m0.020s
> sys	0m0.024s
> 
> # time bzr log -l 2 python.el
> [...]
> real	0m29.459s
> user	0m24.554s
> sys	0m0.716s

It is meaningless to pick up a random command and compare based on
that command alone.  Here's another meaningless comparison:

  eliz@fencepost:~/bzr/emacs/trunk$ time bzr annotate src/xdisp.c > /dev/null
  real    1m43.832s
  user    1m25.740s
  sys     0m3.110s
  eliz@fencepost:~/git/emacs$ time git annotate src/xdisp.c > /dev/null
  real    5m9.646s
  user    4m18.400s
  sys     0m3.580s

I don't know how frequently you need to know the last 2 changes of
python.el, but the number of times I needed to annotate xdisp.c during
the last 2 years is about twice a week.  I will gladly trade a 29-sec
wait for 3.5 min wait.  YMMV.