Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:56:25 +0300
> From: Timur Aydin <address@hidden>
> 
> On 4/2/2013 3:31 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> > FWIW, I tend to think that people like git because of github more than 
> > because
> > of git in particular.
> 
> I think the overwhelming reason that people like git is that it is very 
> fast with very large repositories. I am developing on uClinux with a 
> close to 2GBytes repository. With big repository sizes, git is really 
> the only option by a very large margin ...

Not sure what you are saying.  The Emacs repo is about the same size,
circa 1 GB (not counting the working tree), in both bzr and git, and
they both handle this size well.  Are you saying that Emacs is
"small"?