Re: [Census] So who uses git?

From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Jan 29, 2006, 18:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20060129181240.GA11721@kroah.com>
In-Reply-To: <43DCA495.9040301@gorzow.mm.pl>

On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 12:18:45PM +0100, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote:

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> The only drawback is local cloning. This operation is like 4x slower
> than plain copying of the repository. Probably because it works like an
> ssh clone - creates a pack, copies it, then unpacks. This is just
> inefficient on a local machine.

Have you tried the "-l" option for cloneing locally? It's _very_ fast, even for my tiny little old laptop.

If you add a "-n" that will not checkout the source tree, so you can compare the time of cloning with the checkout portion.

thanks,

greg k-h

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