On Tue, 16 May 2017 21:36:15 +0200
Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:

>  Hardware or more deltas to
> download by users?  Just wondering.

Both.

- End users using git end up having to do massive metadata-updates.
- Infra needs to have massive hits to metadata regeneration
- End users using rsync have to fetch large deltas

So its all-round sadness :(