From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 15:41:20 GMT
Subject: Re: quick bare clones taking longer?
Message-ID: <7vvef2t36n.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070509.020916.80034730.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:

> master.kernel.org just upgraded to git-1.5.1.4 and I notice
> that doing something like this:
>
> 	git clone --bare -n -l -s ../torvalds/linux-2.6.git test-2.6.git
>
> is no longer an instantaneous operation, it seems to be doing a lot
> of stuff now:
>
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/davem/git/test-2.6.git/
> remote: Generating pack...
> remote: Done counting 480025 objects.
> remote: Deltifying 480025 objects.
> remote:  100% (480025/480025) done
> Indexing 480025 objects.
> remote: Total 480025 (delta 385878), reused 473265 (delta 379369)
>  100% (480025/480025) done
> Resolving 385878 deltas.
>  100% (385878/385878) done
>
> Is there a new way to get a quick clone?

There is something very wrong.  "-l -s" should never go to the
"remote: Generating pack..." codepath.  Is that reproducible?
Could you try "sh -x git-clone" it?