From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751317AbWBCSZL (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 13:25:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751328AbWBCSZK (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 13:25:10 -0500 Received: from mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.116]:30417 "EHLO mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751317AbWBCSZJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 13:25:09 -0500 Message-ID: <43E3A001.7080309@lwfinger.net> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:25:05 -0600 From: Larry Finger User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.16-c2 References: <43E39932.4000001@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Larry Finger wrote: > >>I know you must have a good reason to switch to the 'pack' form in the git >>tree, but I'm curious. I did a git pull late yesterday, which was "normal", >>and another this morning when I saw that 2.6.16-rc2 was posted. I was quite >>surprised to download 110 MB of data to get roughly 150 changed lines. > > > Don't use rsync (or http) access unless you have to. > > Try using "git://git.kernel.org/" instead. > > Now, it may be that if we have lots of people using it, the CPU usage of > the server-side effort will go through the roof, and we'll have to come up > with something else (most likely meaning having some mirrors also run > git-daemon, so that the CPU overhead can be pushed out too). > > The point being that you shouldn't see the packing as even an issue (it > should be a per-repository decision). The fact that it shows up is because > of using non-git-aware protocols. > > Linus > Thanks for the explanation. I have to admit that git is pretty much a black box to me. I use the guide at http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html and it recommends using rsync. I'll have to figure out how to change to git protocol. Larry