"Eric S. Raymond" <e...@thyrsus.com> writes: > I'm saying I see rsync plus local checkout take 10-12 hours.
The rsync is a one-off cost. Once you have the repository locally you can checkout any individual revision much more quickly. I have a local copy of the gcc repository and a checkout of gcc trunk from localhost takes about 40 seconds. I'm not using fancy hardware. I can even check it out across my very average WiFi in just over 60 seconds. -- Philip