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[python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Feb 28 23:43:09 CET 2009 
Georg Brandl wrote:
> It doesn't only *feel* slow, it *is* slow.  And not only compared to merging
> with a DVCS, which doesn't need network.  Half a minute to merge a three-line
> change is not productive.

Don't forget that *blocking* a revision with svnmerge seems to take
nearly as long as actually merging it does (the only part that seems to
save time is the fact that you don't need to build and/or run the test
suite afterwards).

Cheers,
Nick.

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