Re: Problem cloning packed-and-pruned http repository

From: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@lumumba.uhasselt.be>
Date: Oct 6, 2006, 22:05 UTC
Message-ID: <20061006220542.GA5890@lumumba.uhasselt.be>
In-Reply-To: <20061006212616.GA5175@lumumba.uhasselt.be>

Hi

On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:26:16PM +0200 or thereabouts,  wrote:

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> [...]
> I've been having trouble setting up a public repository using GIT. After
> I have pushed my repository to a directory within ~/public_html, I can
> clone it. But the repository is _big_ (261M).
> 
> So, I use "git-repack" on it and a "git-prune-packed". This makes it
> nicely fit in 14MiB. If I try to clone this pruned/packed repository
> again both cg-clone hangs on it (as does git-clone).
> [...] 
> takis@poseidon:/tmp$ cg-clone http://lumumba.uhasselt.be/takis/git/ffmpeg-h264-test.git
> defaulting to local storage area
> Fetching head...
> Fetching objects...
> Getting alternates list for http://lumumba.uhasselt.be/takis/git/ffmpeg-h264-test.git/
> Getting pack list for http://lumumba.uhasselt.be/takis/git/ffmpeg-h264-test.git/
> progress: 0 objects, 0 bytes
> cg-clone: interrupted
>

Apparently, it does work :-/ After a _long_ time I noticed that the repository indeed got cloned... I am not sure if this is normal behavior or not, it seemed to take a _really_ long. I would have thought downloading 14MiB should not take a long time on my ADSL line.

With friendly regards, Takis

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