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Re: git clone failing over slow links?

From
Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Date
Jun 9, 2009, 17:12 UTC
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On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 08:52:10AM -0700, 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).

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.

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  3. Nicolas PitreJun 9, 2009
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