From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 03:55:01 GMT
Subject: Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git
Message-ID: <7v3bedll62.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90606092041neadcc54n2acb6272d1f71de7@mail.gmail.com>

"Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

> Yes, most people have -z3, and I agree with you, on paper it sounds
> like the cost is 1/4 of a git clone.
>
> However.
>
> The CVS protocol is very chatty because the client _acts_ extremely
> stupid. It says, ok, I got here an empty directory, and the server
> walks the client through every little step. And all that chatter is
> uncompressed cleartext under pserver.
>
> So the per-file and per-directory overhead are significant. I can do a
> cvs checkout via pserver:localhost but I don't know off-the-cuff how
> to measure the traffic. Hints?

If you have an otherwise unused interface, you can look at
ifconfig output and see RX/TX bytes?  But that sounds very
crude.

Running it through a proxy perhaps?