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Re: Why is git-clone --reference so slow?

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Feb 5, 2007, 15:31 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0702051629450.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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Hi,
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, David Woodhouse wrote:
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> My DSL line sucks; I know this. But why is git-clone so bad at using it?
> 
> This is slow and seems to be downloading a lot of stuff it doesn't
> need...
> 
> pmac /pmac/git $ git-clone --reference /pmac/git/linux-2.6 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux.git
Is this a Mac? Is it Mac OS X? Which git version do you use?

We recently had a case like this, and it was fixed: apparently, mmap() on Mac OS X is less than fast...

Hth, Dscho

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