From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:20:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] repack vs re-clone
Message-ID: <e5bfff550802111120x24338cd6n6eb1f6db55fe487f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3myq7e3ie.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Feb 11, 2008 7:45 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > So it happens to be just faster to re-clone the whole thing by upstream.
>
> So what you are doing is passing the work, unnecessary work I'd say,
> to some poor server. Not nice.
>

To a poor net bandwidth I would say because cloning from zero just
downloads the packages.