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Re: git clone failing over slow links?

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
Jun 9, 2009, 18:42 UTC
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On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 08:52:10AM -0700, skillzero@gmail.com wrote:
> > People with slower connections are having problems cloning my
> > repository. The server seems to just drop the connection. This
> > repository is about 300 MB. The server is using git 1.6.1. This is
> > using an ssh URL. They've tried many times and it usually dies at
> > different places in the clone (5%, 80%, etc., with one successful
> > clone so far for them).
> For Gentoo, we saw what I think was same problem early on with our
> conversion experiments. In our case however, it's going to be a
> non-problem as we intend on disabling initial clone and requiring use of
> a bundle.

In the Gentoo case, I think your problem was rather about the memory usage impact of an initial clone and nothing to do with the speed of the connection.

Nicolas
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  1. skillzero@gmail.comJun 9, 2009
  2. Robin H. JohnsonJun 9, 2009
  3. Nicolas PitreJun 9, 2009
  4. Robin H. JohnsonJun 9, 2009
  5. Nicolas PitreJun 9, 2009
  6. skillzero@gmail.comJun 9, 2009

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