Re: submodule update --force

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:29:02PM -0700, Stefan Zager wrote:

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Heiko Voigt [off-list ref] wrote:

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On a side note: I am surprised that cloning through git is really that
much slower than copying a zip from the network. Do you run git gc
regularly enough on the server?

Don't know about running `git gc`, but I can tell you that the
'resolving deltas' step on the client side is very slow; anecdotally,
it appears to take longer than the network transfer.  We also would
like to relieve the server of the burden of creating large pack files
many times a day (the repo is frequently cloned).  I'll check to see
whether `git gc` can help us.

I do not think you need to do this many times a day a cronjob during the
night should be sufficient. Maybe also do a gc --aggressive one a week?

Cheers Heiko