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Re: Make "git clone" less of a deathly quiet experience

From
Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Date
Feb 11, 2006, 19:10 UTC
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On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 09:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> More importantly, it really wouldn't have helped that much in this 
> situation. At least for me, the network is 90% of the problem, the 
> pack-file generation is at most 10%. So cached packfiles really only 
> matter for server-side problems (high CPU load, or lack of memory, or 
> heavy disk activity).

I'd like to see git use less CPU than CVS does on my distribution host; some mechanism for re-using either existing or cached packs would help a whole lot with that. The alternative is to see people switch to rsync instead, which seems like a far worse idea. 

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keith.packard@intel.com
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  1. Linus TorvaldsFeb 11, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsFeb 11, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2006
  4. Linus TorvaldsFeb 11, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2006
  6. Craig SchlenterFeb 11, 2006
  7. Radoslaw SzkodzinskiFeb 11, 2006
  8. Petr BaudisFeb 11, 2006
  9. Radoslaw SzkodzinskiFeb 11, 2006
  10. Petr BaudisFeb 11, 2006
  11. Petr BaudisFeb 11, 2006
  12. Alex RiesenFeb 11, 2006
  13. Linus TorvaldsFeb 11, 2006
  14. Keith PackardFeb 11, 2006
  15. Andreas EricssonFeb 12, 2006
  16. Keith PackardFeb 12, 2006
  17. Andreas EricssonFeb 12, 2006
  18. Keith PackardFeb 12, 2006
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  20. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2006
  21. Martin LanghoffFeb 13, 2006
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  23. Alex RiesenFeb 11, 2006
  24. Linus TorvaldsFeb 11, 2006

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