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Re: Any tips for improving the performance of cloning large repositories?

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HFHallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Date
Dec 16, 2011, 13:39 UTC
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<hbf.20111216zcin@bombur.uio.no>
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<hbf.20111216yufz@bombur.uio.no>
I wrote:
> 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.

Er, obviously not, since you tried that with rsync. Create the mirror with 'git clone --mirror', then update it with 'git fetch' rather than rsync.

-- 
Hallvard
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