From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anton Blanchard Subject: git clone takes ages on a slow link Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 11:01:45 +1000 Message-ID: <20060604010145.GC986@krispykreme> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jun 04 03:06:45 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fmh4n-0006XT-Ba for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 04 Jun 2006 03:06:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750881AbWFDBGe (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jun 2006 21:06:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750898AbWFDBGe (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jun 2006 21:06:34 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:23489 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750871AbWFDBGd (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jun 2006 21:06:33 -0400 Received: by ozlabs.org (Postfix, from userid 1010) id A8B4367A2E; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 11:06:32 +1000 (EST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I tried cloning a local repository when connected over a slow (1 second+ latency) link. It took forever (I gave up after 10 minutes). If I ran it in the background it took a few seconds. I think the ticker is over anxious. # git clone -l linux-2.6 linux-2.6-test 0 blocks Checking files out... 5% (1060/19552) done <---- performance bottleneck Anton