How to clone faster via ssh ?

From: Alexander Litvinov <lan@ac-sw.com>
Date: Oct 25, 2005, 07:49 UTC
Message-ID: <200510251449.15302.lan@ac-sw.com>

Hello,

I have cvs project imported into git. When unpacked it contains about 205000 objects. I have made one pack and daily rerun cvsimport to get new changes.

When I do cloning via http it takes less than 3 minutes: time git-clone -n http://127.0.0.1:8080/git/r/.git r2 real 2m31.062s user 1m33.562s sys 0m5.462s

When I do cloning via ssh it takes more than 10 minutes and horde of unpacked 
objects:
Packing 204607 objects
Unpacking 204607 objects
 100% (204607/204607) done

real 13m41.510s user 1m52.655s sys 1m5.057s

There are no packs in cloned repo: ls -la r3/.git/objects/pack/ total 6 drwxr-xr-x 2 lan users 48 Oct 25 13:51 . drwxr-xr-x 260 lan users 6240 Oct 25 14:05 .. lan@lan:~/tmp/git/billing

We can't share our project via http - we need authorization for it. Is is possible to clone this repo via ssh as http clone does ? Its will be much faster and will simplify work with such directory - it is hard to delete it after cloning - takes from 5 up to 10 minutes ! Filesystem is reiserfs.

Thanks for help, Alexander Litvinov.