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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 22:19:57 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
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Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark
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On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 02:40:31AM -0400, Sean wrote:
> There isn't anything preventing optomized transfer protocols for git. 

such a system might fall apart under load, converting on the fly from
git to network-optimized format sound quite expensive operation, even
ignorign the initial decompression of the payload. If something it
should be pre-converted to mercurial, so you checkout from mercurial and
you apply to local git.