From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 23:18:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Local clone/fetch with cogito is glacial
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605221615030.3697@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060522225054.GL11941@pasky.or.cz>



On Tue, 23 May 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> Even rsync and HTTP cg-clones? git:// and git+ssh:// fetching follows an
> almost entirely different code patch and it's much more efficient since
> I just accumulate the tag object ids I want to check and then pour them
> to git-fetch-pack - I cannot do that with git-(local|http)-fetch. :-(

Sure you can. Well, not to http-fetch, but git-fetch-pack should work fine 
for a local repo.

The git-clone script will literally special-case rsync:// and http://. 
Everything else should work fine with git-fetch-pack.

		Linus