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The hg clone url cited in git is fast is a 404. I tried all but the bzr one.

I was reading the actual page:
http://whygitisbetterthanx.com

I noticed a typo, came here to fix and it was already fixed in the following commit:
d933f6f » schacon 2009-01-17 little fix submitted by robins

So 1/17/2009 is when the fix came in, the page being served to me has the following header:
Last-Modified:Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:15:07 GMT

The website seems to be out of date and it should be updated.
Cheers

a diff -Naur: http://gist.github.com/173249

Git is better than Subversion in that it can do “self-ignoring ignores”, that is, temporary ignores. For example, creating a git-repo/committed-xml-dir/.gitignore:

/.gitignore
/*.xml

This will cause all XML files in that directory to then be ignored, and if you do a git status the .gitignore won't show up either. This allows files to be temporarily ignored locally without having to commit anything. In contrast, Subversion ignores are handled via a the svn:ignore property, and you can't do svn propset svn:ignore "*.xml" ." and then ignore the ignore viasvn:ignore "." .`—it doesn't work.

Any chance the benchmarks could be updated?

The current benchmarks for bzr seem to be based on bzr 1.0, which is fairly old by now.

FWIW I'm now getting the following results with 2.1:
bzr branch lp:django dj-bzr 26.92s user 1.33s system 48% cpu 58.801 total
git clone git://github.com/brosner/django.git dj-git 3.15s user 0.69s system 13% cpu 28.050 total
50M dj-bzr
53M dj-git

Still half as slow, but a lot better than with 1.0 :-)

The Django mercurial repo mentioned on the site appears to've gone away.

I'd add a new section listing the biggest and most influential projects that already moved to GIT. This could be categorized by programming language or community:

Java:

• eclipse
• apache software foundation (planned)

C(++):

• KDE, QT
• Gnome
• X.org, freedesktop

The text should give a link to the full list: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitProjects

Fossil is a DVCS that seems to be very closely modeled after Git. They have their own comparison page, which they freely admit is written in a pro-Fossil point-of-view. It would be nice to incorporate a comparison from the opposite perspective.

http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki

:(

• hg does have a github/gitorious equivelant: bitbucket
• some people claim that hg does have cheap branches (I can't verify this since I don't use it) (I also lost the link to the claim).