Theodore Tso wrote:
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>On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 06:43:48PM +0200, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>> On my system that results in 2ms per commit on average.  Not huge, but
>> not small either, I guess.  Running it results in real waiting time, it
>> all depends on how patient the user is.

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>For a local clone, git could be taught to copy the cache file.  For a
>network-based clone, the percentage of time needed to download is
>roughly 2-3 times that (although that will obviously depend on your
>network connectivity).  Building this cache can be done in the
>background, though, or delayed until the first time the cache is
>needed.

Fair enough.  If noone beats me to it, I'll probably take a stab at
implementing something like this and see how it fares for my own
application.
-- 
Sincerely,
           Stephen R. van den Berg.

"Father's Day: Nine months before Mother's Day."
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