This seems somewhat less that ideal

The latest pull (fetch) transfered almost the entire history. Yet, I was 
up-to-date as of last night.


remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 46473 objects.
remote: Deltifying 46473 objects.
remote:  100% (46473/46473) done
Indexing 46473 objects...
remote: Total 46473 (delta 32624), reused 46043 (delta 32299)
  100% (46473/46473) done
Resolving 32624 deltas...
  100% (32624/32624) done
* refs/heads/git/git/html: fast forward to branch 'html' of 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
   old..new: 9882a52..469d60e
* refs/heads/git/git/maint: fast forward to branch 'maint' of 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
   old..new: 71e2e59..e9d54bd
* refs/heads/git/git/man: fast forward to branch 'man' of 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
   old..new: 0d96f48..ab919c8
* refs/heads/git/git/master: fast forward to branch 'master' of 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
   old..new: 4342572..a07157a
* refs/heads/git/git/next: fast forward to branch 'next' of 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
   old..new: 0818190..58684ff
* refs/heads/git/git/pu: forcing update to non-fast forward branch 'pu' 
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
   old...new: bb0b180...591bb09