From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:18:04 GMT
Subject: Re: git-fetching from a big repository is slow
Message-ID: <200612141518.05770.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4581573E.40803@op5.se>

On Thursday 2006 December 14 13:53, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> This seems to happen if your repository consists of many large binary
> files, especially many large binary files of several versions that do
> not deltify well against each other. Perhaps it's worth adding gzip

It's actually just every released patch to the linux kernel ever issued.  
Almost entirely ASCII and every revision (save the first) created by patching 
the previous.


Andy

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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE