Re: Git ~unusable on slow lines :,'C

2012-10-09 Thread Marcel Partap
Bam, the server kicked me off after taking to long to sync my copy. This is unrelated to git. The HTTP server's configuration is too impatient. Yes. How does that mean it is unrelated to git? - git fetch should show the total amount of data it is about to transfer! It can't, because it

Re: Git ~unusable on slow lines :,'C

2012-10-09 Thread Shawn Pearce
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Marcel Partap mpar...@gmx.net wrote: Bam, the server kicked me off after taking to long to sync my copy. This is unrelated to git. The HTTP server's configuration is too impatient. Yes. How does that mean it is unrelated to git? It means its out of our control,

Re: Git ~unusable on slow lines :,'C

2012-10-09 Thread Junio C Hamano
c...@elego.de (Carlos Martín Nieto) writes: If you want to download it bit by bit, you can tell fetch to download particular tags. Doing this automatically for this would be working around a configuration issue for a particular server, which is generally better fixed in other ways. As part

Re: Git ~unusable on slow lines :,'C

2012-10-09 Thread Marcel Partap
- git fetch should show the total amount of data it is about to transfer! It can't, because it doesn't know. The server side doesn't know at how much the objects *it just repacked for transfer* weigh in? Actually it does. Then, please, make it display it. What value is that to you? The

Re: Git ~unusable on slow lines :,'C

2012-10-09 Thread Carlos Martín Nieto
Marcel Partap mpar...@gmx.net writes: Bam, the server kicked me off after taking to long to sync my copy. This is unrelated to git. The HTTP server's configuration is too impatient. Yes. How does that mean it is unrelated to git? - git fetch should show the total amount of data it is about

Git ~unusable on slow lines :,'C

2012-10-08 Thread Marcel Partap
Dear Git Devs, I love GIT, but since a couple of months I'm on 3G and after my traffic limit is transcended, things slow down to a feeble 8KiB/s. Jst like back then - things moved somewhat slower. And I'm fine with that - as long as things just keep moving. Unfortunately, git does not scale

Re: Git ~unusable on slow lines :,'C

2012-10-08 Thread Carlos Martín Nieto
Marcel Partap mpar...@gmx.net writes: Dear Git Devs, I love GIT, but since a couple of months I'm on 3G and after my traffic limit is transcended, things slow down to a feeble 8KiB/s. Jst like back then - things moved somewhat slower. And I'm fine with that - as long as things just keep