Re: git clone failing over slow links?

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Jun 9, 2009, 18:55 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0906091443050.31536@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <2729632a0906090852r124eff8eo8391ae90cbda5872@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, skillzero@gmail.com wrote:

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> 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).

Do you clearly have a set of people for whom the clone works and another set with issues?

> remote: Counting objects: 121290, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (82778/82778), done.
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly62.14 MiB | 147 KiB/s

147 KiB/s is not particularly slow either. What is fast enough for the clone to usually succeed?

Also, since this is through an ssh connection, do you have anything in your syslog from sshd (usually in /var/log/secure) about anything unusual for the connection to go down?

> Are there any known issues with git 1.6.1 that might cause this? I can
> try to get the server updated to 1.6.2.3, but I was curious if anyone
> knew of any specific issues like this. The server is running Mac OS X,
> if that matters.

Maybe it does. Major sites using git often use Linux and we would have heard from them if anything like your problem was seen there.

Nicolas