From: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 20:16:15 GMT
Subject: Re: submodule update --force
Message-ID: <20120514201615.GI58058@book.hvoigt.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAHOQ7J8Wq+jHdghgNEGD+7aWNCv3rpPu1erCK4V_pu3sgXQLxA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:29:02PM -0700, Stefan Zager wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> wrote:
> 
> > On a side note: I am surprised that cloning through git is really that
> > much slower than copying a zip from the network. Do you run git gc
> > regularly enough on the server?
> 
> Don't know about running `git gc`, but I can tell you that the
> 'resolving deltas' step on the client side is very slow; anecdotally,
> it appears to take longer than the network transfer.  We also would
> like to relieve the server of the burden of creating large pack files
> many times a day (the repo is frequently cloned).  I'll check to see
> whether `git gc` can help us.

I do not think you need to do this many times a day a cronjob during the
night should be sufficient. Maybe also do a gc --aggressive one a week?

Cheers Heiko