From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dias Badekas Subject: Re: problems cloning using the http protocol Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:49:10 +0300 Message-ID: <87iqhu5o1l.fsf@aia00627.aia.gr> References: <852796.82173.qm@web28303.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MR0Ax-000521-AY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:49:19 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MR0As-0004o5-LJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:49:18 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49174 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MR0As-0004nm-9i for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:49:14 -0400 Received: from keys.aia.gr ([212.205.125.1]:40286) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MR0Ar-0002J3-PW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:49:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <852796.82173.qm@web28303.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> (Giovanni Ridolfi's message of "Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:27:52 +0000 (GMT)") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org I was under the impression that downloading/pulling only the changes from git (even with the *dumb* http method) would be "better" than getting repeatedly the whole archive. According to some posts on this thread, maybe the above assumption is not correct with git. is that right ? Still, it seems simpler to just do a "git pull" instead of going thru a download, unpack cycle Giovanni Ridolfi writes: > why don't you download the zip file? > > http://orgmode.org/index.html#sec-3.2 > > "For people who cannot use git, we provide zip > or tar.gz snapshot release files corresponding > to the latest git version. " > > cheers, > Giovanni > > >