Further, I am not exactly thrilled by the claim that it runs okay "as of fairly recently". There haven't been all that many changes over the last year. So you are obviously wrong. It is also a insult on our work, which you should be fairly ashamed of.
Ciao, Dscho
P.S.: what kind of "Hacker News" are shown on this site when you cannot even comment using w3m? WTF?
Edit: about performance, while Git was slower on windows than on linux, it was still faster than both SVN and Mercurial.
Git still doesn't work well on windows and it's damn slow and only 2 years old, also running it with cygwin was a pain because you had to install it manually and stuff. High 5 y'all!
/me disappointed by HN, expected better than reddit like users.
Where are you getting your performance results from? The footnote from Google's article[1] on choosing between Mercurial and git states that Hg was faster both over HTTP and when compared to git's wire protocol. But I'm willing to admit those numbers may be old, so is there a newer published benchmark anywhere?
Again though, I was curious if you had some numbers. I'm not here to argue which is better, because, really, it's a subjective argument.