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by cle 1557 days ago
Stop for a moment and consider what the tradeoffs of that could be and why it might not work well in some situations.
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- Higher latency

- Less efficient use of bandwidth, as the git protocol is optimised for bulk transfers

- Not resilient against unreliable connectivity

- No support for repositories not hosted on GitHub

Yes, I can think of some.