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On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 07:30:34AM -0700 I heard the voice of
perryh@pluto.rain.com, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> Surely it would be "noticeably faster" to _download_ only (say)
> /usr/src/sys than all of /usr/src, unless one has an uncommonly fast
> link?  (It would also impose less load on the serving site.)

In the context of most current-gen DVCSen, it's unlikely to be much
(or in fact _any_) faster or less data to transfer.  It's just less
data to blat into the working tree.


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