Re: Problem with clone hanging

From: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Date: Aug 7, 2006, 17:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20060807215201.b54da1ce.vsu@altlinux.ru>
In-Reply-To: <1154971295.26375.48.camel@sardonyx>

On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 10:21:35 -0700 Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

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> On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 19:12 +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
> 
> > Looks like the same problem that kernel.org used to have. The other
> > side probably runs git-1.4.0, they should upgrade to 1.4.1.
> 
> OK, thanks for the helpful response.
> 
> >  In the mean
> > time, you could clone using http and later on switch to git transport.
> 
> It seems like Mellanox doesn't publish that repository over HTTP, so I'm
> stuck.  Tziporet, can you upgrade your git installation, please?

In the meantime, you can try to specify a local clone of the mainline Linux repository with the --reference=... option to git-clone. Then the server will need to send only objects which do not exist in the mainline tree, and should be able to prepare the pack faster.