From: Tim Webster <tdwebste@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:09:59 GMT
Subject: performance issue: git clone compression
Message-ID: <72877ab10911071709s200696d4mf12dc797da20be18@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <72877ab10911071657p568b3b98v6fd90e84e098c107@mail.gmail.com>

git clone gitosis@gitserver:code.git

After remote counting objects, remote compressing objects
transfer begins...
This compression operation results in excess of swapage on the remote server.

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I need to avoiding the clone compression step for servers with limited memory.
I am doing the following to avoid this object compression. Is there a
better way?
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scp -r gitserver:/srv/gitosis/repositories/code.git  .
git clone /tmp/junk/code.git --no-hardlinks code
# IS there a better way of converting the bare git repository to
working git repository?

edit .git/config
url = gitosis@gitserver:code.git