# How to clone faster via ssh ? 6 messages from 2005-10-25 to 2005-10-26. Participants: Alexander Litvinov, Johannes Schindelin, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/2215 ## Alexander Litvinov, 2005-10-25 07:49 Subject: How to clone faster via ssh ? Message-ID: <200510251449.15302.lan@ac-sw.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200510251449.15302.lan%40ac-sw.com ``` Hello, I have cvs project imported into git. When unpacked it contains about 205000 objects. I have made one pack and daily rerun cvsimport to get new changes. When I do cloning via http it takes less than 3 minutes: time git-clone -n http://127.0.0.1:8080/git/r/.git r2 real 2m31.062s user 1m33.562s sys 0m5.462s When I do cloning via ssh it takes more than 10 minutes and horde of unpacked objects: Packing 204607 objects Unpacking 204607 objects 100% (204607/204607) done real 13m41.510s user 1m52.655s sys 1m5.057s There are no packs in cloned repo: ls -la r3/.git/objects/pack/ total 6 drwxr-xr-x 2 lan users 48 Oct 25 13:51 . drwxr-xr-x 260 lan users 6240 Oct 25 14:05 .. lan@lan:~/tmp/git/billing We can't share our project via http - we need authorization for it. Is is possible to clone this repo via ssh as http clone does ? Its will be much faster and will simplify work with such directory - it is hard to delete it after cloning - takes from 5 up to 10 minutes ! Filesystem is reiserfs. Thanks for help, Alexander Litvinov. ``` ## Alexander Litvinov, 2005-10-25 07:54 Subject: Re: How to clone faster via ssh ? Message-ID: <200510251454.35202.lan@ac-sw.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200510251454.35202.lan%40ac-sw.com In-Reply-To: <200510251449.15302.lan@ac-sw.com> ``` Forgot to tell: clone via ssh was made using this command: time git-clone -n ssh://lan@lan/home/lan/tmp/git/billing/repo r3 > When I do cloning via ssh it takes more than 10 minutes and horde of > unpacked objects: > Packing 204607 objects > Unpacking 204607 objects > 100% (204607/204607) done > > real 13m41.510s > user 1m52.655s > sys 1m5.057s ``` ## Johannes Schindelin, 2005-10-25 09:04 Subject: Re: How to clone faster via ssh ? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.63.0510251103110.24174%40wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de In-Reply-To: <200510251454.35202.lan@ac-sw.com> ``` Hi, On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Alexander Litvinov wrote: > Forgot to tell: > clone via ssh was made using this command: > time git-clone -n ssh://lan@lan/home/lan/tmp/git/billing/repo r3 If you have a working git on the other side, you could do time git-clone lan@lan:/home/lan/tmp/git/billing/repo r3 which would utilize git-clone-pack. Way faster. Ciao, Dscho ``` ## Alexander Litvinov, 2005-10-25 11:30 Subject: Re: How to clone faster via ssh ? Message-ID: <200510251830.24550.lan@ac-sw.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200510251830.24550.lan%40ac-sw.com In-Reply-To: ``` > If you have a working git on the other side, you could do > > time git-clone lan@lan:/home/lan/tmp/git/billing/repo r3 > > which would utilize git-clone-pack. Way faster. I have tried this command: lan@lan> time git-clone lan@lan:/home/lan/tmp/git/billing/repo r3 defaulting to local storage area lan@lan's password: Packing 204607 objects Unpacking 204607 objects Killed by signal 2.) done real 4m0.874s user 0m0.013s sys 0m0.120s I have killed it at ~ 20%. As I understand it does exactly what ssh git thru ssh transport does: git-rev-list | git-pack | ssh | git-unpack or something like this. So it is not faster. ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2005-10-25 17:17 Subject: Re: How to clone faster via ssh ? Message-ID: <7vbr1dh5y7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vbr1dh5y7.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net In-Reply-To: ``` Johannes Schindelin writes: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Alexander Litvinov wrote: > >> Forgot to tell: >> clone via ssh was made using this command: >> time git-clone -n ssh://lan@lan/home/lan/tmp/git/billing/repo r3 > > If you have a working git on the other side, you could do > > time git-clone lan@lan:/home/lan/tmp/git/billing/repo r3 > > which would utilize git-clone-pack. Way faster. I think both of these notations do the same. The time to unpack the resulting pack on this end is eliminated if you use git from last week, namely this commit: commit e1c7ada6dd1fdf249d0bb84f3293d3be768b9239 Author: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed Oct 19 14:43:43 2005 -0700 git-clone: always keep pack sent from remote. This deprecates --keep and -q flags and always keeps the pack sent from the remote site. Corresponding configuration variables are also removed. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano But you would still pay for creating a pack on the remote side. ``` ## Alexander Litvinov, 2005-10-26 02:46 Subject: Re: How to clone faster via ssh ? Message-ID: <200510260946.58443.lan@ac-sw.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200510260946.58443.lan%40ac-sw.com In-Reply-To: <7vbr1dh5y7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> ``` > The time to unpack the resulting pack on this end is eliminated > if you use git from last week, namely this commit: > > commit e1c7ada6dd1fdf249d0bb84f3293d3be768b9239 > Author: Junio C Hamano > Date: Wed Oct 19 14:43:43 2005 -0700 > > git-clone: always keep pack sent from remote. > > This deprecates --keep and -q flags and always keeps the > pack > sent from the remote site. Corresponding configuration > variables are also removed. > > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano > > But you would still pay for creating a pack on the remote side. Yeah ! Thanks. Version for todays master branch works much faster: lan@lan:~/tmp/git/billing> time git-clone -n ssh://lan@lan/home/lan/tmp/git/billing/repo r1 defaulting to local storage area lan@lan's password: Packing 204607 objects real 4m0.107s user 0m11.879s sys 0m1.717s And it makes only one pack. Great. ```