Re: git-fetch per-repository speed issues

[Matthias Kestenholz <lists@spinlock.ch>]

* Andreas Ericsson (ae@op5.se) wrote:
> Keith Packard wrote:
> >On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 20:40 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> >
> >>   "And, it's painfully slow, even when the repository is up to date"
> >>
> >>and gave a 17-second time.
> >
> >
> >It's faster this evening, down to 8 seconds using ssh and 4 seconds
> >using git. I clearly need to force use of the git protocol. Anyone else
> >like the attached patch?
> 
> Since it changes the current meaning of ssh+git, I'm not exactly 
> thrilled. However, "git/ssh" or "ssh/git" would work fine for me. The 
> slash-separator could be used to say "fetch over this, push over that", 
> so we can end up with any valid protocol to use for fetches and another 
> one to push over.
> 

If we would do such a thing, we would be probably better off
allowing different URLs for pushing and pulling, because the git and
ssh URLs will only be the same, if the git repositories are located
in the root folder and I suspect that's almost never the case.

	Matthias