"Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Yes, most people have -z3, and I agree with you, on paper it sounds > like the cost is 1/4 of a git clone. > > However. > > The CVS protocol is very chatty because the client _acts_ extremely > stupid. It says, ok, I got here an empty directory, and the server > walks the client through every little step. And all that chatter is > uncompressed cleartext under pserver. > > So the per-file and per-directory overhead are significant. I can do a > cvs checkout via pserver:localhost but I don't know off-the-cuff how > to measure the traffic. Hints? If you have an otherwise unused interface, you can look at ifconfig output and see RX/TX bytes? But that sounds very crude. Running it through a proxy perhaps? - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html