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expensive local git clone

From
DMDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date
Jul 4, 2005, 19:57 UTC
Message-ID
<20050704.125744.59481768.davem@davemloft.net>

I'm still seeing git-local-pull going crazy when attemping local clones of kernel trees, this is from top:

22032 davem     18   0 63392  59m  920 R 76.0  5.9   5:33.15 git-local-pull     
and it's still chugging along.  This is from a simple:
bash$ git-clone-script /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/.git /home/davem/src/GIT/sparc-2.6
invocation.

I can't be the only person in the world seeing this :-) It usually grows to around 88MB and runs for 8 minutes before it finishes.

It must be walking the whole commit tree to the root or something silly like that.

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  1. David S. MillerJul 4, 2005
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  3. Petr BaudisJul 4, 2005
  4. David S. MillerJul 4, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 4, 2005
  6. David S. MillerJul 4, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoJul 4, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsJul 4, 2005
  9. Short-cut git-fetch-pack while cloning locally.Junio C Hamano, Jul 5, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsJul 6, 2005
  11. Short-circuit git-clone-pack while cloning locally.Junio C Hamano, Jul 6, 2005
  12. Linus TorvaldsJul 6, 2005
  13. Junio C HamanoJul 6, 2005
  14. Short-circuit git-clone-pack while cloning locally (take 2).Junio C Hamano, Jul 6, 2005

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