From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: expensive local git clone
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 22:42:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050704204235.GE21128@pasky.ji.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507041327580.3570@g5.osdl.org>
Dear diary, on Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 10:39:09PM CEST, I got a letter
where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> told me that...
> That said, the pack-file thing I'm working on won't be perfect either, and
> the main advantage is that it should work over ssh. The fastest way to do
> a clone is really to do a recursive hardlinked tree, so you may well want
> to just do
>
> #!/bin/sh
> mkdir "$2" && cp -rl "$1/.git" "$2/.git"
>
> and it should be about a million times faster and equally effective.
>
> Untested, of course.
I wouldn't do that on anything but .git/objects. ;-)
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
<Espy> be careful, some twit might quote you out of context..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-04 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-04 19:57 expensive local git clone David S. Miller
2005-07-04 20:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-07-04 20:42 ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2005-07-04 21:00 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-04 21:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-07-04 22:49 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-04 23:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-07-04 21:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-07-05 20:17 ` [PATCH] Short-cut git-fetch-pack while cloning locally Junio C Hamano
2005-07-06 0:42 ` expensive local git clone Linus Torvalds
2005-07-06 8:14 ` [PATCH] Short-circuit git-clone-pack while cloning locally Junio C Hamano
2005-07-06 16:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-07-06 18:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-07-06 20:04 ` [PATCH] Short-circuit git-clone-pack while cloning locally (take 2) Junio C Hamano
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