From: Keith Packard Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 19:10:29 GMT Subject: Re: Make "git clone" less of a deathly quiet experience Message-ID: <1139685031.4183.31.camel@evo.keithp.com> In-Reply-To: On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 09:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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. -- keith.packard@intel.com