Re: Abolishing ChangeLog files

[chad]

On 29 Mar 2013, at 08:58, Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> wrote:

I misremembered, then. But it definitely took me 30 minutes today to make a new clone of git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.

FWIW, I just did this for the first time, on a reasonably modern macosx laptop and residential cable modem inside the US:

; git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs

Cloning into 'emacs'...

remote: Counting objects: 702132, done.

remote: Compressing objects: 100% (140829/140829), done.

remote: Total 702132 (delta 562334), reused 699521 (delta 560328)

Receiving objects: 100% (702132/702132), 863.79 MiB | 297 KiB/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (562334/562334), done.

135.588u 14.156s 16:43.53 14.9% 0+0k 327+2868io 3pf+0w

In case it's not clear, the wall-clock time was 16 minutes, 43.53 seconds.

~Chad