<hr /><i>anonymous added on 2011-05-10 12:42:40 UTC:</i><br />
The DragonFly BSD project maintains a git mirror of pkgsrc at <tt>git://git.dragonflybsd.org/pkgsrcv2.git</tt>

Here are some git clone times for comparison.  First from the network (slow connection 389 KB/s) and then from local.

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$ cd /tmp
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$ time git clone --mirror git://git.dragonflybsd.org/pkgsrcv2.git pkgsrcgit
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Cloning into bare repository pkgsrcgit...
remote: Counting objects: 1590487, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (470270/470270), done.
remote: Total 1590487 (delta 1117330), reused 1564721 (delta 1096191)
Receiving objects: 100% (1590487/1590487), 473.92 MiB | 389 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1117330/1117330), done.
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real	26m57.789s
user	2m35.646s
sys	0m45.874s
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$ time git clone --mirror file:///tmp/pkgsrcgit pkgsrcgit2
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Cloning into bare repository pkgsrcgit2...
remote: Counting objects: 1590487, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (449131/449131), done.
Receiving objects: 100% (1590487/1590487), 473.92 MiB | 8.93 MiB/s, done.
remote: Total 1590487 (delta 1117330), reused 1590487 (delta 1117330)
Resolving deltas: 100% (1117330/1117330), done.
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real	7m0.143s
user	3m24.122s
sys	0m47.543s
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Then the equivalent of a "fossil open" which actually checked out 63027 files into the local directory.

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$ time git clone /tmp/pkgsrcgit pkgsrcopen
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Cloning into pkgsrcopen...
done.
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real	0m56.812s
user	0m5.374s
sys	0m15.589s
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Then a "git status"

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$ cd pkgsrcopen
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$ time git status
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# On branch master
nothing to commit (working directory clean)
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real	0m10.397s
user	0m0.818s
sys	0m3.721s
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