Now that is interesting too, because git is very fast for all I have ever done. It may not scale to Google monorepo size, it would ve the wrong tool for that. But if you are talking Linux kernel source scale, it asolutely, is fast enough even for that.

For everything I've ever done, git was practically instant (except network IO of course). It's one of the fastest and most reliable tools I know. If it isn't fast for you, chances are you are on a slow Windows filesysrem additionally impeded by a Virus scanner.

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forrestthewoods 6 hours ago | parent [-]

The fact that Git has an extremely strong preference for storing full and complete history on every machine is a major annoyance! “Except for network IO” is not a valid excuse imho. Cloning the Linux kernel should take only a few seconds. It does not. This is slow and bad.

The mere fact that Git is unable to handle large binary files makes it an unusable tool for literally every project I have ever worked on in my entire career.

	▲	spockz 42 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Git-lfs exists for a while now. Does that fix your issue? Or do you mean that it doesn’t support binary diffs?
	▲	pabs3 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Git handles large text files and large directories fairly poorly too.