Re: Git ~unusable on slow lines :,'C

2012-10-09 Thread Carlos Martín Nieto
Marcel Partap writes: >>> Bam, the server kicked me off after taking to long to sync my copy. >> This is unrelated to git. The HTTP server's configuration is too >> impatient. > Yes. How does that mean it is unrelated to git? > >>> - git fetch should show the total amount of data it is about to >

Re: Git ~unusable on slow lines :,'C

2012-10-09 Thread Marcel Partap
- git fetch should show the total amount of data it is about to transfer! >>> It can't, because it doesn't know. >> The server side doesn't know at how much the objects *it just repacked >> for transfer* weigh in? > Actually it does. Then, please, make it display it. > What value is that

Re: Git ~unusable on slow lines :,'C

2012-10-09 Thread Junio C Hamano
c...@elego.de (Carlos Martín Nieto) writes: > If you want to download it bit by bit, you can tell fetch to download > particular tags. Doing this automatically for this would be working > around a configuration issue for a particular server, which is generally > better fixed in other ways. As par

Re: Git ~unusable on slow lines :,'C

2012-10-09 Thread Shawn Pearce
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Marcel Partap wrote: >>> Bam, the server kicked me off after taking to long to sync my copy. >> This is unrelated to git. The HTTP server's configuration is too >> impatient. > Yes. How does that mean it is unrelated to git? It means its out of our control, we cann

Re: Git ~unusable on slow lines :,'C

2012-10-09 Thread Marcel Partap
>> Bam, the server kicked me off after taking to long to sync my copy. > This is unrelated to git. The HTTP server's configuration is too > impatient. Yes. How does that mean it is unrelated to git? >> - git fetch should show the total amount of data it is about to >> transfer! > It can't, because

Re: Git ~unusable on slow lines :,'C

2012-10-08 Thread Carlos Martín Nieto
Marcel Partap writes: > Dear Git Devs, > I love GIT, but since a couple of months I'm on 3G and after my traffic > limit is transcended, things slow down to a feeble 8KiB/s. Jst like > back then - things moved somewhat slower. And I'm fine with that - as > long as things just keep moving. > U

Git ~unusable on slow lines :,'C

2012-10-08 Thread Marcel Partap
Dear Git Devs, I love GIT, but since a couple of months I'm on 3G and after my traffic limit is transcended, things slow down to a feeble 8KiB/s. Jst like back then - things moved somewhat slower. And I'm fine with that - as long as things just keep moving. Unfortunately, git does not scale dow