From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does a git pull have to be so big?
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:44:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C6E9CC.60509@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601130912.27374.ncunningham@cyclades.com>
Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Friday 13 January 2006 08:48, Brian Gerst wrote:
>> Nigel Cunningham wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> I'm using cogito .16-2 (ubuntu) and git 1.0.6.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Nigel
>>>
>>> #cg-fetch
>>> Fetching head...
>>> Fetching objects...
>>> progress: 114 objects, 256992 bytes
>>> Getting alternates list for
>>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
>>> progress: 376 objects, 1413225 bytes
>>> Getting pack list for
>>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
>>> progress: 453 objects, 1924312 bytes
>>> Getting index for pack 221c50e73e5ab65afededc14f1df0541b59ebdd5
>>> Getting pack 221c50e73e5ab65afededc14f1df0541b59ebdd5
>>> which contains 62727f8969438d99c3c34415d16611cf86f16140
>>>
>>> (Still going)
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>> Use git://git.kernel.org/... instead of http.
>>
>> --
>> Brian Gerst
>
> Ok. I'll give it a try - is it related to the packed files thing Jeff spoke
> of?
>
> Regards,
>
> Nigel
>
Yes. If the objects are packed then the only way to get the objects by
http are to download the whole pack.
--
Brian Gerst
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-12 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-12 22:45 Does a git pull have to be so big? Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-12 22:48 ` Brian Gerst
2006-01-12 23:12 ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-12 23:44 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2006-01-13 0:00 ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-01-12 22:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-12 23:11 ` Nigel Cunningham
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