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How does darcs compare to git these days? I know it used to have some significant performance issues on large repos.



It still does.

We've made a lot of progress. You'll see people saying that their performance problems have gone away. But we have a long way to go.

Two things to fix: downloading repos is slow (latency, too many small files); and conflict merging can be slow under a few cases. The first one we have a fix for from a summer of code project, but needs more work. The second issue is a very deep, very serious, and will take us a seriously long time to think through.




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