"Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

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> On 8/6/07, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
>> > Using dumb protocols it's impossible to do either.
>>
>> That's not exactly true. You can't be as efficient with dumb protocols
>
> You are right -- I should have said: it's pretty hard, and we haven't
> put the effort ;-)

Yes, that seems more accurate.

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>> (its ancestor,
>> GNU Arch, also had a way to be network-efficient on dumb protocols).
>
> Do I remember your name from gnuarch-users?

Possibly so, yes. I also remembered yours from the old good time where
people started explaining why they unsubscribed the list and migrated
to something better ;-).

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> -- that Arch/tla was never particularly efficient, and fetches of
> large updates were slow and painful. Surely it was efficient on
> paper though :-p

It was actually efficient in terms of bandwidth. You downloaded only
the needed pieces (this has to do with the fact that the original
author wrote it at a time when he had only a slow modem connection).
But badly pipelined, and local operations were slow, so the result was
obviously _very_ far from what git can do.

-- 
Matthieu
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