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Date:      Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:18:15 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        perryh@pluto.rain.com
Cc:        uqs@spoerlein.net, kmacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Official git export
Message-ID:  <20110831081815.GN2493@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <4e5e458a.Un%2BVK0itRgItvxbf%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
References:  <CAMBSHm8uX45k0M4on=5Cpw_CKoddA=4oJSNXpH7dGPt=Vy2HOw@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108261000040.48200@fledge.watson.org> <slrnj5lc58.jd1.vadim_nuclight@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net> <4e5ba9c3.bzHIw1KEy8R2QcK7%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <3420B331-C697-468A-80BA-B31C33804710@freebsd.org> <4e5c5b5f.moT7dLemOuteQJ5T%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <4E5C364D.7070904@freebsd.org> <CAHM0Q_Mq3YEEpB6uNymjtd=WCQuTR6gd=71EsLxJf5J0ygyjiw@mail.gmail.com> <20110830201357.GB58638@acme.spoerlein.net> <4e5e458a.Un%2BVK0itRgItvxbf%perryh@pluto.rain.com>

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On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 07:30:34AM -0700 I heard the voice of
perryh@pluto.rain.com, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> 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.)

In the context of most current-gen DVCSen, it's unlikely to be much
(or in fact _any_) faster or less data to transfer.  It's just less
data to blat into the working tree.


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
           On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.



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