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git clone takes ages on a slow link

From
ABAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Date
Jun 4, 2006, 01:01 UTC
Message-ID
<20060604010145.GC986@krispykreme>
Hi,

I tried cloning a local repository when connected over a slow (1 second+ latency) link. It took forever (I gave up after 10 minutes). If I ran it in the background it took a few seconds.

I think the ticker is over anxious.
# git clone -l linux-2.6 linux-2.6-test
0 blocks
Checking files out...
   5% (1060/19552) done			<---- performance bottleneck
Anton
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