From: Pazu <pazu@pazu.com.br>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:28:48 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn: why fetching files is so slow
Message-ID: <loom.20061124T202153-512@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061124191609.GA32506@localdomain>

Eric Wong <normalperson <at> yhbt.net> writes:

> git-svn transfers full files, and not deltas.  I'll hopefully have a
> chance to look into improving the situation for slow links this weekend.

Yes, but why would that make fetching the first revision slower? In this
situation, both svn and git-svn would have to fetch full files. Maybe git-svn
isn't using gzip compression or http pipelining?

-- Pazu