I wonder if the problem detected here is also responsible with results of Jeremy Blosser benchmark comparing git with Mercurial http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/sm-discuss/2006-May/014586.html where git wins for clone, status and log, but is slower for pull. See summary at http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitBenchmarks#head-85df1bb7f019c4c504e34cde43450ef69349882f -- Jakub Narebski - : 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