From: Petr Baudis Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 21:30:02 GMT Subject: Re: Cloning speed comparison, round II Message-ID: <20051112213002.GI30496@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: Dear diary, on Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 09:31:32PM CET, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds said that... > On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > So the fact is: rsync is often slower, and _always_ less capable. > > Side note: a lot of the rsync problems are non-issues for the initial > clone. But based on my "machine X" tests, git is as fast as git+ssh (which is as it should be), which means it is even slightly faster than rsync, even for the initial commit. > That initial clone is in fact the only time I think rsync can be a good > idea, especially if the server end is repacking regularly. Yes, the only advantage of rsync I can see is that you get it all packed. Well, I think this only means we are doing something wrong, and perhaps we should automatically pack as well. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.