Re: [Monotone-devel] results of mercurial user survey

[Zbynek Winkler]

Thomas Keller wrote:

> "Chose Monotone, got confused, switched to Mercurial." 

While I have some issues with the monotone model as well (ie. branch as
a bag of (possibly) unrelated discontinuous revisions) I do not find it
any more 'difficult' than mercurial's.

> "Monotone is simply too slow to use, even on smallish trees on my dual 
> amd64."

That is probably THE reason why I switched from monotone to mercurial. I
do not like the way mercurial stores all revision data in *each*
workspace and "works around" this by using hardlinks or the way
publishing remote branches works (ie. is more difficult than it needs to
be) but I've learnt to live with it because it is reasonably fast and
works over ssh (no new ports on firewalls needed, no new daemon
listening for incoming connections etc.).

Zbynek

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