Hi, On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 04:40:17PM +0200, Stephan Hennig wrote: > I am observing very large data transfers when pulling from the > repository at <URL:http://repo.or.cz/w/wortliste.git>. This repository > contains one 13 MB text file that compressed is roughly 3 MB large. > > While I'd expect pulling commits that change only a few lines of the > large text file to result in a download of less than, say 10kB, git pull > seems to transfer the complete, compressed file. I have observed this > several times for different commits. On the other hand, pushing my own > commits to the repository is fast (with git+ssh access method). Any > ideas what's going on and how to make pulling faster? do you use HTTP or native Git protocol for pulling? If HTTP, you have to live with this, sorry - the automatic repacks will create a new pack every time and you will have to redownload the whole history; I tried to avoid this problem but in the end I had to bow down to the agressive repacking strategy because the number of packs was getting out of hand. It is technically possible to implement some alternative more HTTP-friendly packing strategy, but this has always stayed only in idea stage. If you want to implement something, repo.or.cz will become a glad user. :-) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- J. Olson -- 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
