[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] source snapshots URLs for all repositories on the download page

[Måns Rullgård]

Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:

>> I doubt the tarball is any smaller than what git clone would transfer.
>
> Why?  Does the history goes over the wire compressed?  

What did you expect?

> Downloading the tarball is considerably faster than cloning for me,
> witness:
>
> ~/tmp $ time git clone -q git://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
>
> real    0m29.432s
> user    0m9.430s
> sys     0m1.110s
>
> ~/tmp $ time wget -q http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-snapshot-git.tar.bz2
>
> real    0m6.659s
> user    0m0.060s
> sys     0m0.240s

Time is not everything:

$ git clone git://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
Receiving objects: 100% (139572/139572), 28.38 MiB | 1.36 MiB/s, done.

$ wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-snapshot-git.tar.bz2
Length: 36453654 (35M) [application/x-bzip]

That's a difference of 7MB, or 25%, right there.

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