pulling Already up-to-date linux-2.6 repo takes ~8 minutes?

Greetings git gods,

I'm wondering if I'm not doing something wrong, and thereby putting unneeded stress on kernel.org when I pull latest kernel tree.

git_pull_linus scriptlet:

#!/bin/sh (cd linux-2.6; git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git) (cd linux-2.6; git pull -t git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git)

root@Homer: time ./git_pull_linus
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Counting objects: 17746
remote: Done counting 55975 objects.
remote: Result has 48507 objects.
remote: Deltifying 48507 objects...
remote:  100% (48507/48507) done
Indexing 48507 objects...
remote: Total 48507 (delta 38878), reused 44654 (delta 35166)
 100% (48507/48507) done
Resolving 38878 deltas...
 100% (38878/38878) done
3419 objects were added to complete this thin pack.
Already up-to-date.
You are not currently on a branch; you must explicitly
specify which branch you wish to merge:
  git pull <remote> <branch>

real 7m57.429s user 0m13.517s sys 0m0.859s

8 minutes, truckloads of network traffic, and lord knows what all going on at the other end just doesn't seem right. /me == dummy?

	-Mike