Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Pazu <pazu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Eric Wong <normalperson <at> yhbt.net> writes: >> >> > git-svn transfers full files, and not deltas. I'll hopefully have a >> > chance to look into improving the situation for slow links this weekend. >> >> Yes, but why would that make fetching the first revision slower? In this >> situation, both svn and git-svn would have to fetch full files. Maybe git-svn >> isn't using gzip compression or http pipelining? > > Even for the initial transfer, the tree is bundled into one big delta > (at least over https). Do you mean that "one big delta" saves duplicates across copies inside the tree (e.g. svn tags and branches can be expressed as a mostly identical copies of each other), or do you mean "one full file at a time" requests are killing us, compared to a such single transfer of "one big delta"? - To unsubscribe from this list: 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