Does a git pull have to be so big?

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi.

I try to do pulls reasonably often, but they always seem to be huge downloads 
- I'm sure they're orders of magnitude bigger than a simple patch would be. 
This leads me to ask, do they have to be so big? I'm on 256/64 ADSL at home, 
did a pull yesterday at work iirc, and yet the pull this morning has taken at 
least half an hour. Am I perhaps doing something wrong?

I'm using cogito .16-2 (ubuntu) and git 1.0.6.

Regards,

Nigel

#cg-fetch 
Fetching head...
Fetching objects...
progress: 114 objects, 256992 bytes
Getting alternates list for 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
progress: 376 objects, 1413225 bytes
Getting pack list for 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/
progress: 453 objects, 1924312 bytes
Getting index for pack 221c50e73e5ab65afededc14f1df0541b59ebdd5
Getting pack 221c50e73e5ab65afededc14f1df0541b59ebdd5
 which contains 62727f8969438d99c3c34415d16611cf86f16140

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