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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: git pull is slow
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:30:47 +0200
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Stephan Hennig schrieb:
> I am observing very large data transfers when pulling from the
> repository at <URL:http://repo.or.cz/w/wortliste.git>.  This repository
> contains one 13 MB text file that compressed is roughly 3 MB large.
> 
> While I'd expect pulling commits that change only a few lines of the
> large text file to result in a download of less than, say 10kB, git pull
> seems to transfer the complete, compressed file.  I have observed this
> several times for different commits.  On the other hand, pushing my own
> commits to the repository is fast (with git+ssh access method).  Any
> ideas what's going on and how to make pulling faster?

Do you by any chance use a http URL to pull? Don't do that. Use git protocol.

-- Hannes