Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, david@xxxxxxx wrote: > > > and for cloneing (and especially thing like linux-next where you essentially > > re-clone daily) letting the pack get cached is probably a very good thing. > > I hope that people recloning linux-next daily are very few. This is an > incredible waste of bandwidth, regardless of the protocol used, dumb or > not. A standard fetch with a remote tracking branch (with -f or with a > plus sign on the "fetch" line in your config file) should be all that's > needed to significantly reduce the amount of data needed to transfer. Or at least clone with --reference. You get about the same benefit if your local reference repository is fairly current, say with a stable upstream like Linus' own tree. -- Shawn. -- 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
