From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scot Becker Subject: Re: problems cloning using the http protocol Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:22:24 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87vdlvjzh7.fsf@aia00627.aia.gr> <87y6qri3pc.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MQoWE-0002DL-NL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:22:30 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MQoWB-0002BU-0f for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:22:30 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50761 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MQoWA-0002BP-Oj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:22:26 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com ([209.85.218.219]:64979) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MQoWA-0005Xa-92 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:22:26 -0400 Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so1390307bwz.42 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:22:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87y6qri3pc.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> 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: Bernt Hansen Cc: Dias Badekas , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Bernt, > HTTP will always be slower than the git protocol. HTTP is dumb so there > is no way to transfer only part of a pack that contains the objects you > are missing. You'll get the entire pack file each time via the HTTP > protocol. Ah, that explains it. That makes the benefit of git via http vs. the devel.tar.gz somewhat less. Thanks for your explanations. That helps. Git is a wide wide world of which I have only seen a sliver. Scot