From: Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:11:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Any tips for improving the performance of cloning large repositories?
Message-ID: <hbf.20111216yufz@bombur.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-05NPP7aCcr_SYxLYk8U1entDMv0aF2Me3cTGmOLjYqFKUOA@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Bennee writes:
> We've migrated our old CVS repository into GIT without too many
> issues. However now we are rolling out the usage of the new repository
> we are hitting some performance bottlenecks, especially on the initial
> clone (something our buildbot instance does a lot).

Do you often need to clone from a remote?  Instead of cloning from a
local (git clone --mirror) which gets auto-updated from the remote.

Could the buildbot make do with a shallow repo, clone --depth <num>?

-- 
Hallvard