Re: Does a git pull have to be so big?

[Nigel Cunningham]

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)
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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.

Ah. Well, I've followed the advice and switched to git://. Thanks again!

Nigel
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