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Re: Make "git clone" less of a deathly quiet experience

From
Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 13, 2006, 02:06 UTC
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On 2/12/06, Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 04:43 +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>
> > A weird oddity; Cloning is faster over rsync, day-to-day pulling is not.
>
> Precisely. If the protocol could deliver existing packs instead of
> unpacking and repacking them, then git would be as fast as rsync and I
> wouldn't have to worry about supporting two protocols.

+1... there should be an easy-to-compute threshold trigger to say -- hey, let's quit being smart and send this client the packs we got and get it over with. Or perhaps a client flag so large projects can recommend that uses do their initial clone with --gimme-all-packs?

My workaround for large repos is to clone over http, and s/http:/git:/ on the origin file once it's done ;-)

martin
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  1. Linus TorvaldsFeb 11, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsFeb 11, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2006
  4. Linus TorvaldsFeb 11, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2006
  6. Craig SchlenterFeb 11, 2006
  7. Radoslaw SzkodzinskiFeb 11, 2006
  8. Petr BaudisFeb 11, 2006
  9. Radoslaw SzkodzinskiFeb 11, 2006
  10. Petr BaudisFeb 11, 2006
  11. Petr BaudisFeb 11, 2006
  12. Alex RiesenFeb 11, 2006
  13. Linus TorvaldsFeb 11, 2006
  14. Keith PackardFeb 11, 2006
  15. Andreas EricssonFeb 12, 2006
  16. Keith PackardFeb 12, 2006
  17. Andreas EricssonFeb 12, 2006
  18. Keith PackardFeb 12, 2006
  19. Eric W. BiedermanFeb 16, 2006
  20. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2006
  21. Martin LanghoffFeb 13, 2006
  22. Junio C HamanoFeb 13, 2006
  23. Alex RiesenFeb 11, 2006
  24. Linus TorvaldsFeb 11, 2006

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