From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 03:40:43 GMT
Subject: Re: git-fetch per-repository speed issues
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607032039010.12404@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vsllinj1m.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> Isn't that because the repository have 32 subprojects, totally
> unrelated content-wise?  If you have real stuff to pull from
> there your pack generation needs to do 32 time as much work as
> you would for a single head in that case.

No, Keith said this was for the case where the fetching repository is 
already totally up-to-date:

    "And, it's painfully slow, even when the repository is up to date"

and gave a 17-second time.

			Linus