[18:13] <jelmer> Walex: what do you mean with binary files exactly?
[18:14] <jelmer> large files?
[18:15] <jelmer> Walex: speed often depends a lot on the exact situation in which you're using a tool, I don't think it's necessarily correct to say that Bazaar is fast and Mercurial is slow :)
[18:15] <jelmer> Walex: Bazaar also supports HTTP (and technically, SFTP and FTP) as a transport, in addition to native and SSH
[18:16] <jelmer> (and git also has 'native')
[18:17] <jelmer> Walex: git only tracks basic file metadata (e.g. normalized mode), not other metadata (e.g. file owner/group, ACLs, extended attributes, etc)
[18:23] <jelmer> Walex: note that the git format support hasn't been merged into breezy yet, it's currently still in a plugin (brz-git) but may be merged at some point
[22:03] <Walex> ahhh sorry to miss this
[22:04] <Walex> jelmer: many thanks for the details.
[22:06] <Walex> jelmer: as to speed I think that mercurials's "lots of small files" repo is a really bad idea *for system administrators*. Developers tend to have desktops/laptos with SSDs, monstrous amounts of RAM, and only a few repos, so they could not care less.