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With your such internet is pretty damn fast. With 56Kb/s transfer rate it take centuries. Specially for cloning. Of course will only happen first time when you clone it, than switch over branches are quite fast. ---------------------------- Igor Costa www.igorcosta.com www.igorcosta.org On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Omar Gonzalez <omarg.develo...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Michael A. Labriola < > > labri...@digitalprimates.net> wrote: > > > > > >OK, but the first clone will be huge? I think our import file was in > > the > > > 10's of GBs. I'm afraid to try to clone the flex project over my home > > > network. I am testing by cloning the flex-site which worked from > github. > > > > > > That is a big concern. I don't have a sense of how big it would be if > all > > > of the copies of files SVN has were made singular in the git method. We > > > don't need to use github to figure it out though, we can make a local > git > > > repository and try this. I am willing to do so later next week when I > > > should have time or, if someone else has time, they can do so first. > > > > > > Mike > > > > Went ahead and tried it myself also, here's my console log: > > quintessa:GitHub grimlock$ git clone git://git.apache.org/flex.git > Cloning into 'flex'... > remote: Counting objects: 330636, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (87765/87765), done. > Receiving objects: 100% (330636/330636), 174.63 MiB | 364 KiB/s, done. > remote: Total 330636 (delta 238777), reused 325021 (delta 233243) > Resolving deltas: 100% (238777/238777), done. > quintessa:GitHub grimlock$ du -sh ./flex/ > 799M ./flex/ > > The download is 174.63 MB. > The /flex folder once checked out is 799M. > > I also tried making some branches, it was instant. > Switching between branches, also instant. > These would be local branches. > > Publishing branches back to the remote should also be fast, as it does not > reupload the entire branch fileset, Git is smarter than that. > > -omar >
