Re: git-fetching from a big repository is slow

> Andy Parkins wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've got a big repository.  I've got two computers.  One has the repository
> > up-to-date (164M after repack); one is behind (30M ish).
> > 
> > I used git-fetch to try and update; and the sync took HOURS.  I zipped the
> > .git directory and transferred that and it took about 15 minutes to
> > transfer.
> > 
> > Am I doing something wrong?  The git-fetch was done with a git+ssh:// URL.
> > The zip transfer with scp (so ssh shouldn't be a factor).
> > 
> 
> This seems to happen if your repository consists of many large binary files,
> especially many large binary files of several versions that do not deltify
> well against each other. Perhaps it's worth adding gzip compression detecion
> to git? I imagine more people than me are tracking gzipped/bzip2'ed content
> that pretty much never deltifies well against anything else.