Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751487AbWAMAAW (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:00:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751492AbWAMAAW (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:00:22 -0500 Received: from b3162.static.pacific.net.au ([203.143.238.98]:41628 "EHLO localhost") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751487AbWAMAAV (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:00:21 -0500 From: Nigel Cunningham Organization: Cyclades To: Brian Gerst Subject: Re: Does a git pull have to be so big? Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:00:49 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200601130845.29797.ncunningham@cyclades.com> <200601130912.27374.ncunningham@cyclades.com> <43C6E9CC.60509@didntduck.org> In-Reply-To: <43C6E9CC.60509@didntduck.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601131000.49553.ncunningham@cyclades.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2256 Lines: 67 Hi. On Friday 13 January 2006 09:44, Brian Gerst wrote: > 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) > >>> - > >>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" > >>> in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > >>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >>> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >> > >> 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. Ah. Well, I've followed the advice and switched to git://. Thanks again! Nigel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/