From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com>
To: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does a git pull have to be so big?
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:12:27 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601130912.27374.ncunningham@cyclades.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43C6DCD7.30709@didntduck.org>
Hi.
On Friday 13 January 2006 08:48, Brian Gerst wrote:
> Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I try to do pulls reasonably often, but they always seem to be huge
> > downloads - I'm sure they're orders of magnitude bigger than a simple
> > patch would be. This leads me to ask, do they have to be so big? I'm on
> > 256/64 ADSL at home, did a pull yesterday at work iirc, and yet the pull
> > this morning has taken at least half an hour. Am I perhaps doing
> > something wrong?
> >
> > I'm using cogito .16-2 (ubuntu) and git 1.0.6.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Nigel
> >
> > #cg-fetch
> > Fetching head...
> > Fetching objects...
> > progress: 114 objects, 256992 bytes
> > Getting alternates list for
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
> > progress: 376 objects, 1413225 bytes
> > Getting pack list for
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
> > progress: 453 objects, 1924312 bytes
> > Getting index for pack 221c50e73e5ab65afededc14f1df0541b59ebdd5
> > Getting pack 221c50e73e5ab65afededc14f1df0541b59ebdd5
> > which contains 62727f8969438d99c3c34415d16611cf86f16140
> >
> > (Still going)
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> Use git://git.kernel.org/... instead of http.
>
> --
> Brian Gerst
Ok. I'll give it a try - is it related to the packed files thing Jeff spoke
of?
Regards,
Nigel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-12 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-12 22:45 Does a git pull have to be so big? Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-12 22:48 ` Brian Gerst
2006-01-12 23:12 ` Nigel Cunningham [this message]
2006-01-12 23:44 ` Brian Gerst
2006-01-13 0:00 ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-12 22:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-12 23:11 ` Nigel Cunningham
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