Comment Re:Advertising disguised as history lesson. (Score 1) 244
It doesn't apply to checking out large repositories. It's faster at pretty much everything (except git clone vs svn checkout, which it still comes close for).
See http://johan.kiviniemi.name/blag/svn-diff-git-diff-speed/ and http://thinkvitamin.com/code/why-you-should-switch-from-subversion-to-git/, particularly the "Not Just for Teams of Coders" section.