Subject: Re: git-svn: why fetching files is so slow

From: Eric Wong <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:33:20 -0800

Pazu <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Eric Wong <normalperson <at> yhbt.net> writes:
> 
> > git-svn transfers full files, and not deltas.  I'll hopefully have a
> > chance to look into improving the situation for slow links this weekend.
> 
> Yes, but why would that make fetching the first revision slower? In this
> situation, both svn and git-svn would have to fetch full files. Maybe git-svn
> isn't using gzip compression or http pipelining?

Even for the initial transfer, the tree is bundled into one big delta
(at least over https).

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