From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:17:32 GMT
Subject: Re: performance issue: git clone compression
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0911072115270.16711@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <72877ab10911071709s200696d4mf12dc797da20be18@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Tim Webster wrote:

> git clone gitosis@gitserver:code.git
> 
> After remote counting objects, remote compressing objects
> transfer begins...
> This compression operation results in excess of swapage on the remote server.
> 
> --------------------
> 
> I need to avoiding the clone compression step for servers with limited memory.

Make sure the remote repository is fully packed.  To do so, just go into
the remote repository and run 'git gc'.


Nicolas