Excerpts from Simon Peyton-Jones's message of Mon Apr 04 04:50:21 -0400 2011:
> Doing a 'git clone' of the main GHC repository is pretty slow (ten minutes
> plus), presumably because it fetches everything.  sync-all takes another
> twenty minutes
> 
> Would it be faster using git's own protocol rather than http?

Cloning is dramatically faster with Git's own protocol.

> If so, is it just a question of changing the 'clone' command, or is there
> more to do than that?

We'd have to start up a git daemon to serve it, since this protocol lives on
another port.

Edward

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