Re: Proper Publishing of a Repository

From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Date: Mar 22, 2006, 20:26 UTC
Message-ID: <1143059181.4527.162.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060322221630.e65baca0.tihirvon@gmail.com>

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 14:16, Timo Hirvonen wrote:

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> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:17:52 -0600
> Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> wrote:
> 
> > Folks,
> > 
> > So, I feel like I missed a step in the grand
> > "How To Publish A Repository" scheme of things.
> > 
> > I made a repo visible over on jdl.com.  No problem.
> > But cloning it took forever.  So I ran "git-repack"
> > on it.  Now cloning only takes hours, not forever.
> > 
> > All this on the linux kernel over HTTP.
> 
> Use git:// protocol (git-daemon) if possible.  It is much faster.

Trust me, if it were an option, I would.  It isn't.

So, I think git-prune-packed was the answer here... jdl