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by karaziox 3753 days ago
Because cloning the dependency is not the issue here. CocoaPods is keeping its index in a git repo that is updated by the user as a way to get the latest index. This is the repo that incur a lot of requests from everyone.

Go get on the other hand doesn't keep any index. It just uses the url to download the dependency because of the mapping "url==project name" that exists with go projects.