From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: expensive local git clone Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 22:42:35 +0200 Message-ID: <20050704204235.GE21128@pasky.ji.cz> References: <20050704.125744.59481768.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "David S. Miller" , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 04 22:42:43 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpXm6-0002SD-43 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 22:42:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261652AbVGDUmi (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2005 16:42:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261657AbVGDUmi (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2005 16:42:38 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:37295 "HELO machine.sinus.cz") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261652AbVGDUmg (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2005 16:42:36 -0400 Received: (qmail 12714 invoked by uid 2001); 4 Jul 2005 20:42:35 -0000 To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Dear diary, on Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 10:39:09PM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds 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/ be careful, some twit might quote you out of context..