From: Jeff Garzik Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 02:45:54 GMT Subject: local clone much slower than remote clone Message-ID: <433DF862.4020500@pobox.com> Case 1: remote clone time git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git scsi-sas-2.6 ... real 3m36.432s user 0m0.584s sys 0m0.656s Case 2: local clone time git clone /spare/repo/linux-2.6 scsi-sas-2.6 ... Packing 99084 objects Unpacking 99084 objects ... real 4m31.876s user 4m43.618s sys 0m40.047s Downloading an entire kernel tree over cable modem is almost a minute faster than a local clone! IMHO the local clone should just hardlink the packs and objects, and be done with it. Jeff