Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:25:05 -0600 | From | Larry Finger <> | Subject | Re: Linux v2.6.16-c2 |
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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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