Eric Mertens kindly did some experiments on the various git repos, and servers, and approaches to serving. * We're looking at >45 mins for a full history darcs get of ghc, over http, from darcs.haskell.org. * git clone of full ghc over http, from darcs.haskell.org, completes in the range of 6-7 minutes (roughly 150KiB/s) * git clone over git protocol, using github's bandwidth, completes in 2.1 minutes. (roughly 560KiB/s) So that indicates a significant improvment by switching to the git:// server protocol. Can we get that on darcs.haskell.org? In general git is doing a good job here addressing slow 'darcs get ' times, which are now way way down. This will make life easier for some of us. Mirroring automatically to github could also address some of our redundancy concerns. -- Don