From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 20:42:35 GMT
Subject: Re: expensive local git clone
Message-ID: <20050704204235.GE21128@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507041327580.3570@g5.osdl.org>

Dear diary, on Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 10:39:09PM CEST, I got a letter
where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> told me that...
> That said, the pack-file thing I'm working on won't be perfect either, and
> the main advantage is that it should work over ssh. The fastest way to do
> a clone is really to do a recursive hardlinked tree, so you may well want
> to just do
> 
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	mkdir "$2" && cp -rl "$1/.git" "$2/.git"
> 
> and it should be about a million times faster and equally effective.
> 
> Untested, of course.

I wouldn't do that on anything but .git/objects. ;-)

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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