Re: Faster checkout times under Git

On 11 Aug 2008, at 23:15, Don Stewart wrote:

> Eric Mertens kindly did some experiments on the various git repos,
> and servers, and approaches to serving.
>
> * We're looking at >45 mins for a full history darcs get
>   of ghc, over http, from darcs.haskell.org.
>
> * git clone of full ghc over http, from darcs.haskell.org,  
> completes in
>   the range of 6-7 minutes (roughly 150KiB/s)
>
> * git clone over git protocol, using github's bandwidth, completes
>   in 2.1 minutes. (roughly 560KiB/s)
>
> So that indicates a significant improvment by switching to the git://
> server protocol. Can we get that on darcs.haskell.org?
>
> In general git is doing a good job here addressing slow 'darcs get '
> times, which are now way way down. This will make life easier for some
> of us.
>
> Mirroring automatically to github could also address some of our
> redundancy concerns.

I'm working on both issues with Ian and Paul.  The current setup also  
isn't friendly to incremental pulls over http.  I'm working on it.

/ Thomas