Re: Linux v2.6.16-c2

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

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