Re: Expected speed of commit over HTTP?

Philip Martin <philip_at_codematters.co.uk> writes:

> Paul Hammant <paul_at_hammant.org> writes:
>
>> I'm making each revision with..
>>
>> dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=500 2>/dev/null >
>> path/to/file/under/versionControl.dat
>>
>> .. which is random enough to completely thwart delta analysis of the file.
>> That's slow enough in itself, but I'm only checking the time of the commit.
>
> The standard client always sends deltas even for cases like yours where

I'm assuming /dev/urandom as /dev/zero doesn't really make sense here.

-- 
Philip