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Re: Why is git-clone --reference so slow?

From
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date
Feb 5, 2007, 15:35 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0702051629450.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 16:31 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Is this a Mac? Is it Mac OS X? Which git version do you use?
> 
> We recently had a case like this, and it was fixed: apparently, mmap()
> on Mac OS X is less than fast...

Yes, it's a Mac G5. No, it's not OSX; it's Fedora Core 6. As far as I can tell it's downloading far more than it needs before discarding objects which are already in the local repository used in --reference.

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