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SubjectRe: Linux v2.6.16-c2
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Larry Finger wrote:
>
>>I know you must have a good reason to switch to the 'pack' form in the git
>>tree, but I'm curious. I did a git pull late yesterday, which was "normal",
>>and another this morning when I saw that 2.6.16-rc2 was posted. I was quite
>>surprised to download 110 MB of data to get roughly 150 changed lines.
>
>
> Don't use rsync (or http) access unless you have to.
>
> Try using "git://git.kernel.org/" instead.
>
> Now, it may be that if we have lots of people using it, the CPU usage of
> the server-side effort will go through the roof, and we'll have to come up
> with something else (most likely meaning having some mirrors also run
> git-daemon, so that the CPU overhead can be pushed out too).
>
> The point being that you shouldn't see the packing as even an issue (it
> should be a per-repository decision). The fact that it shows up is because
> of using non-git-aware protocols.
>
> Linus
>

Thanks for the explanation. I have to admit that git is pretty much a black box to me. I use the
guide at http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html and it recommends using rsync. I'll have to figure out
how to change to git protocol.

Larry

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