Re: Does a git pull have to be so big?

[Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com>]

Hi.

On Friday 13 January 2006 08:54, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 08:45:29AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > I try to do pulls reasonably often, but they always seem to be huge
> > downloads - I'm sure they're orders of magnitude bigger than a simple
> > patch would be. This leads me to ask, do they have to be so big? I'm on
> > 256/64 ADSL at home, did a pull yesterday at work iirc, and yet the pull
> > this morning has taken at least half an hour. Am I perhaps doing
> > something wrong?
>
> Two answers here:
>
> 1) Every so often, you download the entire kernel history all over
> again, if you are using pack files, since most repositories are repacked
> occasionally.

Thanks for the reply. Can I avoid using pack files with Linus' tree? If so, 
how?

> 2) Every change sends the full updated (albeit compressed) file,
> not a patch.

Ok. I can cope with that. Redownloading the whole history however, I'd like to 
stop.

Regards,

Nigel