File:Op-vs-time.png

Plot showing the time taken for operations common to our usage scenario for various Version Control Systems.

Times are totals over the whole sample set (789 text files from Project Gutenberg, 295 MB).

The operations are (executed in this order):


 * create
 * Creation of repository / branch "first", commit of first version


 * checkout
 * Check out of first version (branch "first")


 * commit
 * Commit into branch "first"


 * branch
 * Creation of a new branch ("branch1") based on the branch "first"


 * checkoutB
 * Check out of branch "branch1"


 * commitB
 * Commit into branch "branch1"