From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:06:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Make "git clone" less of a deathly quiet experience
Message-ID: <46a038f90602121806jfcaac41tb98b8b4cd4c07c23@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1139717510.4183.34.camel@evo.keithp.com>

On 2/12/06, Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> wrote:
> 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