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

[Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>]

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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