In preparation for my git-talk tonight, I thought having a *big* archive would be nice, so I entered: git-clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git The network traffic took about five minutes, resulting in: % git-clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git Initialized empty Git repository in /Volumes/UFS/MIRROR/linus-GIT/linux-2.6/.git/ remote: Generating pack... remote: Done counting 393554 objects. remote: Deltifying 393554 objects. remote: 100% (393554/393554) done Indexing 393554 objects. remote: Total 393554, written 393554 (delta 313037), reused 393392 (delta 312908) 100% (393554/393554) done But then it took nearly an *hour* at the next phase: Resolving 313037 deltas. 100% (313037/313037) done And then just a few minutes for: Checking files out... 100% (21275/21275) done So what's happening in that hour-long phase? I'd like to be able to explain it to the folks at home in my talk. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! - 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