Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:44:12 -0500 | From | Brian Gerst <> | 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) >>> - >>> 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.
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