Re: Git Slowness on Windows w/o Internet

> On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 11:10:51AM -0500, Peter Kostyukov wrote:
>> Wanted to bring to your attention an issue that we discovered on our
>> Windows Jenkins nodes with git scm installed (git.exe). Our Jenkins
>> servers don't have Internet access. It appears that git.exe is trying
>> to connect to various Cloudflare and Akamai CDN instances over the
>> Internet when it first runs and it keeps trying to connect to these
>> CDNs every git.exe execution until it makes a successful attempt. See
>> the screenshot attached with the details.
>>
>> Enabling Internet access via proxy fixes the issue and git.exe
>> continues to work fast on the next attempts to run git.exe
>>
>> Is there any configuration setting that can disable this git's
>> behavior or is there any other workaround without allowing Internet
>> access? Otherwise, every git command run on a server without the
>> Internet takes about 30 seconds to complete.
> 
> Git itself doesn't make any attempt to access those systems unless it's
> configured to do so (e.g. a remote is set up to talk to those systems
> and fetch or pull is used).
> 
> It's possible that you're using a distribution package that performs
> this behavior, say, to check for updates.  I'd recommend that you
> contact the distributor, which in this case might be Git for Windows,
> and see if they can tell you more about what's going on.  The URL for
> that project is at https://github.com/git-for-windows/git.
>