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From: Qianqian Fang <fangqq@gmail.com>
Subject: slowness in pulling data to mobile devices using git
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:56:08 -0400
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hi list

I am not sure if this is the right place to ask. I am having
some difficulties to speed up synchronization of a large git
repo (~4GB) to a mobile phone via USB cable. It appears that
the "git pull" command has to read through the entire
history to make a single update, even the update is very
minor.

I post my full question at this link:

http://groups.google.com/group/git-users/browse_thread/thread/9f33536257535b28?hl=en

does this make sense? is there a way to speed up
the updating without letting git to do all the file readings?

thanks

Qianqian