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Subject: Re: Official git export
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Ulrich Sp??rlein <uqs@spoerlein.net> wrote:

> A partial checkout won't make git noticeably
> faster, as it is pretty darn fast already.

Surely it would be "noticeably faster" to _download_ only (say)
/usr/src/sys than all of /usr/src, unless one has an uncommonly
fast link?  (It would also impose less load on the serving site.)