# something about git clone 2 messages from 2018-04-08 to 2018-04-08. Participants: jiangwei zhao, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/48239 ## jiangwei zhao, 2018-04-08 09:07 Subject: something about git clone Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAJ1nrkCrvFAR4qD1ay9CCG80mRUf1BhcRtV21rOSh6BzVSoY6w%40mail.gmail.com ``` hello! i am a chinese. i have some question for you ,i want to know how 'git clone'work, it likes downloader? or other things. i think it'sdown speed is heigher,so i email to you . thanks ,and my english is so poor.:P ``` ## Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, 2018-04-08 11:48 Subject: Re: something about git clone Message-ID: <87muydzzoa.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87muydzzoa.fsf%40evledraar.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Sun, Apr 08 2018, jiangwei zhao wrote: > hello! > i am a chinese. > i have some question for you ,i want to know how 'git clone'work, > it likes downloader? or other things. i think it'sdown speed is > heigher,so i email to you . > thanks ,and my english is so poor.:P You will not get the same speed from "git clone" as "wget" of a static file, since the server may need to do a lot more work to serve you, so it will be slower than downloading a static file. ```