Hi, On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: > My DSL line sucks; I know this. But why is git-clone so bad at using it? > > This is slow and seems to be downloading a lot of stuff it doesn't > need... > > pmac /pmac/git $ git-clone --reference /pmac/git/linux-2.6 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux.git Is this a Mac? Is it Mac OS X? Which git version do you use? We recently had a case like this, and it was fixed: apparently, mmap() on Mac OS X is less than fast... Hth, Dscho - 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