Hi, I did notice such dramatic slowness, even though I haven't measured it. I had to migrate our old SVN repo to Git and I ended up using my Ubuntu VirtualBox to do that. Much more convenient.
Setting up a VirtualBox is not that much trouble. If you're already familiar with GNU/Linux. But hey, you're a programmer! ;-) Eric On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 3:25:20 PM UTC-5, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen wrote: > > On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 6:25:35 PM UTC+1, rupert THURNER wrote: > >> hi, >> >> what is the reason, that msysgit used as subversion client is 10-15 times >> slower as mercurial, used as svn client? just as an example the runtimes to >> check for an update: >> >> $ time git svn rebase >> Current branch master is up to date. >> >> real 1m31.736s >> user 0m0.015s >> sys 0m0.031s >> >> $ time hg pull -u >> pulling from svn+https://svn.... >> no changes found >> >> real 0m7.684s >> user 0m0.015s >> sys 0m0.000s >> >> > Over a minute for just a svn rebase sounds awfully slow, even accounting > for git-svn/msysgits rumored performance issues. Which Windows are you > using? I see there are some issues with Windows 7: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2835775/msysgit-bash-is-horrendously-slow-in-windows-7 > > Other usual suspects are virus scanners, encrypted filesystems, network > filesystems.. You got any of these? > > You could gather up the relevant information (Git version, OS details, > etc) and report it on the msysgit mailing list here: > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/msysgit > > Coincidentially, the msysgit developers were discussing performance > problems a couple of days ago ( > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/msysgit/yy-yPNxaxgw/b9mX8qdrjNkJ) - so > you're not the first to complain. > --
