> > git clone of the Linus' repo takes 3 minutes. > > The hg clone of netbeans took 5 HOURS! >
This is surely dependent on the network and the server the git/hg client talks to. > The repo size is 3.6GB. But it contains many binaries which we could > probably strip off. > I really don't like to have a Hibernate jar file in an official ASF repo ;) > There may be some ancient leftover binaries, but since I can remember external JARs have been saved outside the mercurial repository here: http://hg.netbeans.org/binaries/ and are automatically downloaded when necessary at build time (and cached in ~/.hgexternalcache). I see hibernate files on http://hg.netbeans.org/binaries/ going as far as 2008 so they should not be in the mercurial repo. > I'm sure you've read this by now, but HG seems a better fit for these > > larger > > projects: > > https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1unehr/ > scaling_mercurial_at_facebook/ > > > > All this to say: I would tread carefully. Out of curiosity, is there a > > reason that Apache projects can't use Mercurial? > +1 Mercurial is a mainstream open-source DVCS the same age as git. It also supports history rewriting. All the existing NetBeans contributors are used to mercurial and while git is in theory similar to mercurial I often find myself googling for the most basic git things (hg rollback in git being something I can never remember). --emi
