From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:03:15 GMT Subject: Re: Git-aware HTTP transport Message-ID: <20080826170315.GH26523@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, david@lang.hm wrote: > > > and for cloneing (and especially thing like linux-next where you essentially > > re-clone daily) letting the pack get cached is probably a very good thing. > > I hope that people recloning linux-next daily are very few. This is an > incredible waste of bandwidth, regardless of the protocol used, dumb or > not. A standard fetch with a remote tracking branch (with -f or with a > plus sign on the "fetch" line in your config file) should be all that's > needed to significantly reduce the amount of data needed to transfer. Or at least clone with --reference. You get about the same benefit if your local reference repository is fairly current, say with a stable upstream like Linus' own tree. -- Shawn.