From: R. Diez Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:05:41 GMT Subject: Re: git-fetch takes forever on a slow network link. Can parallel mode help? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: > Git doesn't use standard SSH file transfer operations. > [...] OK, thanks for the information. I have finally done a "git gc" on the server side, and now a "git pull" from the client with no new commits to download takes 4 seconds, a drastic reduction from the 25 seconds it took before. I turns out I hadn't done a "git gc" on the server for over 2 years, so that many new references weren't packed. Therefore, I think that having many small files to read versus one packed-refs file makes a huge difference if you have mounted a remote filesystem over a network with a relatively high latency. My 1 Mbps connection does not actually have such a high latency (around 40 ms measured with ping), but latency seems to have a much greater impact than the low bandwidth, at least with a packed-refs file which only weighs 64 kB. Best regards, rdiez