some time comparison when using git, mercurial with svn (subversion)

[rupert.thurner]

fyi, i timed the conversion of a small repository from subversion to
git-1.7.4 / hg-1.7.5.

            git         hg
--------------------------
svn clone    18         31
push          2          9
(times in minutes)

especially surprising was that mercurial was 4 times slower when
pushing. the details .......

$ time git svn clone https://gar.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gar/csw/mgar/gar/v2
gar
...
real	18m14.018s
user	2m19.037s
sys	1m20.341s

$ time git push origin master
Counting objects: 5900, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (5775/5775), done.
Writing objects: 100% (5900/5900), 1.42 MiB | 2.31 MiB/s, done.
Total 5900 (delta 4190), reused 0 (delta 0)

To git at github.com:opencsw/gar.git
 * [new branch]      master -> master

real	1m57.673s
user	0m2.308s
sys	0m0.404s


$ time hg clone svn+https://gar.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gar/csw/
mgar/gar/v2 gar-hg
....
pulled 927 revisions
updating to branch default
228 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

real	31m8.127s
user	9m13.095s
sys	0m9.941s


$ time hg push https://rupert.thurner@gar.googlecode.com/hg
warning: gar.googlecode.com certificate with fingerprint
a9:be:c0:4a:da:1c:eb:4c:31:9d:78:27:48:99:f4:9c:9a:e8:53:c8 not
verified (check hostfingerprints or web.cacerts config setting)
pushing to https://rupert.thurner@gar.googlecode.com/hg
searching for changes
http authorization required
realm: Google Code Mercurial Repository
user: rupert.thurner
password:
warning: gar.googlecode.com certificate with fingerprint
a9:be:c0:4a:da:1c:eb:4c:31:9d:78:27:48:99:f4:9c:9a:e8:53:c8 not
verified (check hostfingerprints or web.cacerts config setting)
remote: Success.

real	9m28.179s
user	0m1.288s
sys	0m0.244s