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I also used to think this, then I realised https has far better performance, particularly for high latency connections. A big repo clone from Github to here in
by akdor1154 2y ago
I also used to think this, then I realised https has far better performance, particularly for high latency connections.
A big repo clone from Github to here in Australia takes about half the time over https when compared with ssh. I'm not sure if github has region-located repos.
- bin_bash 2y agodoes it? I've used both quite a bit and ssh certainly "feels" faster to me (with multiplexing)
- MaxBarraclough 2y agoIt's possible that's an issue with GitHub, rather than anything inherent to the protocols. Somewhat related: SourceHut blog post on them optimising Git operations over SSH: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2019-11-22-what-happens-on-git-push/ https://sourcehut.org/blog/2019-11-22-what-happens-on-git-pu...