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From: Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: Dias Badekas <dbadekas@aia.gr>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problems cloning using the http protocol
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:22:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0e1fe620907141322qa48f229od2f4c48afc8c3adc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y6qri3pc.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca>

Bernt,

> HTTP will always be slower than the git protocol.  HTTP is dumb so there
> is no way to transfer only part of a pack that contains the objects you
> are missing.  You'll get the entire pack file each time via the HTTP
> protocol.

Ah, that explains it.  That makes the benefit of git via http vs. the
devel.tar.gz somewhat less.


Thanks for your explanations.  That helps.  Git is a wide wide world
of which I have only seen a sliver.

Scot

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-14 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-14 11:06 problems cloning using the http protocol Dias Badekas
2009-07-14 12:28 ` Scot Becker
2009-07-14 13:26   ` Nick Dokos
2009-07-14 13:27     ` Scot Becker
2009-07-14 17:17   ` Bernt Hansen
2009-07-14 20:22     ` Scot Becker [this message]
2009-07-15 11:55     ` Dias Badekas
2009-07-15 11:46   ` Dias Badekas
2009-07-14 13:27 ` Giovanni Ridolfi
2009-07-14 17:06   ` Richard Riley
2009-07-15  7:43     ` Giovanni Ridolfi
2009-07-16 20:58     ` Bastien
2009-07-15  8:49   ` Dias Badekas

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