From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:00:50 GMT
Subject: Re: git clone: very long "resolving deltas" phase
Message-ID: <20100407080049.GA14041@LK-Perkele-V2.elisa-laajakaista.fi>
In-Reply-To: <4BBC1E15.9040403@gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:54:29AM +0400, Vitaly Berov wrote:
> I suspected the security reasons.
> 
> Ok, we work in trusted environment. How can we turn this behavior off?
 
It can't be turned off. Protocol requires client to recompute hashes
as they are not explicitly available in transport stream (must be inferred
instead).

> >This being said, you should never have to wait 6 hours for that phase to
> >complete.  It is typically a matter of minutes if not seconds.

The reasons why it might take 6 hours (offhand from memory):

- Extremely large repo
- Very large files in repo pushing client into swap.

-Ilari