Small datapoint

[Johan Rydberg]

John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

> So it took 20x longer over http than it took over sftp. All of this is
> local (including a local DNS server). But noticing that the user time is
> 20minutes, it seems that all of that time is spent parsing something.
> (Probably the inventory).

That is correct.  There are two ways to clone a branch; either by
iterating over the inventory and fetching revisions as they come, or
if the transport can list directories it is possible to copy the files
directly.

~j