From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:31:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Why is git-clone --reference so slow?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702051629450.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <1170676004.29759.767.camel@pmac.infradead.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, David Woodhouse wrote:

> 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