Re: Local clone/fetch with cogito is glacial

[Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>]

Dear diary, on Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:03:06AM CEST, I got a letter
where "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> said that...
> Petr Baudis wrote:
> >
> >Even rsync and HTTP cg-clones? git:// and git+ssh:// fetching follows an
> >almost entirely different code patch and it's much more efficient since
> >I just accumulate the tag object ids I want to check and then pour them
> >to git-fetch-pack - I cannot do that with git-(local|http)-fetch. :-(
> >
> 
> No, but git-fetch-pack could operate over a local pipe just fine (after 
> all, all it does is ssh an "git-send-pack" command to the other side.)

Yes, but in that case it couldn't hardlink the objects so you would see
quite a big bump in disk usage if you have many local clones of the same
repo.

That said, hardlinking is probably not all that big an advantage if you
repack often, repack everywhere, and in the many-repositories cases it
might be more sensible to use alternates (which is what cg-clone -l
should really do instead of symlinking), so it might be well worth
the sacrifice.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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Right now I am having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time.  I think
I have forgotten this before.