Re: Problem cloning packed-and-pruned http repository

From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Oct 6, 2006, 23:49 UTC
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP08A34A8FB0703E4D2ABAF9AE130@CEZ.ICE>
In-Reply-To: <20061006220542.GA5890@lumumba.uhasselt.be>

On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 00:05:42 +0200 takis@lumumba.uhasselt.be (Panagiotis Issaris) wrote:

> Apparently, it does work :-/ After a _long_ time I noticed that the
> repository indeed got cloned... I am not sure if this is normal behavior
> or not, it seemed to take a _really_ long. I would have thought
> downloading 14MiB should not take a long time on my ADSL line.

It's not normal. There's something odd going on. I can clone your repo with wget in about two minutes, while Git still hadn't downloaded anything after 12 minutes when I killed it.

Poked around a bit, and found that if I comment out these lines from http-fetch.c:

#ifndef NO_EXPAT
        if (remote_ls(repo, "objects/pack/", PROCESS_FILES,
                      process_ls_pack, NULL) == 0)
                return 0;
#endif

Then everything downloads nice and fast. Does anyone have a guess why that would be?

Sean