Cross-posting to dev-version-control
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 3:39 PM, <zbranie...@mozilla.com> wrote: > For the last few months I've been mostly using git clone of mozilla-central > because I'm used to git. Now I'm trying to set up my mercurial environment to > match what I have for git in order to reduce the bias toward the latter. > > One of the crucial parts of my workflow is the git completion shell prompt > that gives me information about branch I'm on and untracked/modified files. > > This is how my shell prompt looks like on gecko-dev (git clone): > > zbraniecki@cintra:~/projects/mozilla/gecko-dev (master %=)$ > > and if I modify any file it may look like this: > > zbraniecki@cintra:~/projects/mozilla/gecko-dev (master +%>)$ > > I tried to get something similar for HG, including hg-prompt (written in > python), and vcsprompt (written in C), but both are painfully slow. > > What's striking, on the same repo, the git is 3 times faster than hg to get > me the prompt shell. > > zbraniecki@cintra:~/projects/mozilla/gecko-dev (master %=)$ time vcprompt -f > "( %b %u%%%m)" > ( master ?%) > real 0m0.472s > user 0m0.236s > sys 0m0.384s > > vs > > zbraniecki@cintra:~/projects/mozilla/mozilla-central$ time vcprompt -f "( %b > %u%%%m)" > ( default %+) > real 0m1.643s > user 0m1.224s > sys 0m0.396s > > > I thought that maybe it's just vcprompt, so I tried status: > > zbraniecki@cintra:~/projects/mozilla/mozilla-central$ time hg status > > real 0m1.706s > user 0m1.380s > sys 0m0.316s > > vs. > > zbraniecki@cintra:~/projects/mozilla/gecko-dev (master %=)$ time git status > On branch master > Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. > > real 0m0.399s > user 0m0.204s > sys 0m0.332s > > If I understand correctly our choice of using mercurial over git was driven > by the performance. Am I doing something wrong? > > It seems like the performance difference is quite substantial. > > zb. > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
