Subject: Re: Make "git clone" less of a deathly quiet experience

From: Keith Packard <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:11:49 -0800

On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 04:43 +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> A weird oddity; Cloning is faster over rsync, day-to-day pulling is not.

Precisely. If the protocol could deliver existing packs instead of
unpacking and repacking them, then git would be as fast as rsync and I
wouldn't have to worry about supporting two protocols.

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