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		silentbicycle on March 15, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Perforce is more scalable than Git While I haven't checked the source, I'm pretty sure by default git doesn't re-hash any files unless the timestamps have changed. (I know Mercurial doesn't.)

silentbicycle on March 15, 2009 [–]

The scaling situation for the top post would involve large binaries (builds or generated data) being added on a regular basis.

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