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

From
Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Date
Feb 12, 2006, 04:11 UTC
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On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 04:43 +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> A weird oddity; Cloning is faster over rsync, day-to-day pulling is not.

Precisely. If the protocol could deliver existing packs instead of unpacking and repacking them, then git would be as fast as rsync and I wouldn't have to worry about supporting two protocols.

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keith.packard@intel.com
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