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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:44:12 -0500
From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
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To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com>
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Subject: Re: Does a git pull have to be so big?
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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.

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