From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 01:45:13 GMT Subject: Re: irc usage.. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20060520203911.GI6535@nowhere.earth> On Sat, 20 May 2006, Yann Dirson wrote: > > FWIW, I have mentionned a problem that may be the same, under > Message-ID <20060107090148.GB32585@nowhere.earth>, that was on January > 7th. Namely, when importing a repository with very large files over > pserver or ssh, timeouts can occur and prevent the import from > working. But, as you said, it's not easy to get precise info from the > logs :) For big repositories, you really shouldn't use pserver or ssh anyway. You should try really really hard to just get a local copy, and do it that way. It's going to be tons faster, and will avoid a lot of the problems, including network timeouts etc. Linus