> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 08:08:17 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> However, the amount of data transferred
> by bzr is still excessively large.  For example, updating from
> rev. 101894 (Oct. 10th) to today's rev. 101979 (with `bzr pull') used
> more than 20MByte!  Looking at the amount of changes actually applied
> to the repository, I estimate that git would need only approx. 200 to
> 300kByte $(Q#|(B this is 70 to 100 times less...
> 
> It would be great if someone using an emacs git repository could
> verify my estimation.
> 
> git compresses the data on the remote side before transferring it.
> Does bzr omit that step?  Maybe I'm missing a bzr option?  Otherwise,
> it looks like a severe flaw in the design.

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