Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git

"Martin Langhoff" [off-list ref] writes:

Yes, most people have -z3, and I agree with you, on paper it sounds
like the cost is 1/4 of a git clone.

However.

The CVS protocol is very chatty because the client _acts_ extremely
stupid. It says, ok, I got here an empty directory, and the server
walks the client through every little step. And all that chatter is
uncompressed cleartext under pserver.

So the per-file and per-directory overhead are significant. I can do a
cvs checkout via pserver:localhost but I don't know off-the-cuff how
to measure the traffic. Hints?

If you have an otherwise unused interface, you can look at
ifconfig output and see RX/TX bytes?  But that sounds very
crude.

Running it through a proxy perhaps?