Problem setting up public packed repository

[Panagiotis Issaris <takis.issaris@uhasselt.be>]

Hi

I'm having trouble setting up a public GIT repository. After using git-push
everything works fine, but the repository is _big_ (261MB). But, I can clone it
without any problem. If I "git-pack -a -d" and "git-prune-packed" it, the
repository is nicely shrinked to 14MB _but_ I can't clone it anymore. It starts
alright and seems to look for the pack, but it just hangs at that point...

To illustrate this, I have made a "cp -lr" copy of that public tree [1], one as it
was after git-push (well in fact, it it a packed/prune-packed one, unpacked
again) and another which is packed/prune-packed (the 14MiB one).

Trying to clone it shows this (both with git-clone and cg-clone):

takis@poseidon:/tmp$ cg-clone http://lumumba.uhasselt.be/takis/git/ffmpeg-h264.git
defaulting to local storage area
Fetching head...
Fetching objects...
progress: 38 objects, 159434 bytes
cg-clone: interrupted

takis@poseidon:/tmp$ cg-clone http://lumumba.uhasselt.be/takis/git/ffmpeg-h264-test.git
defaulting to local storage area
Fetching head...
Fetching objects...
Getting alternates list for http://lumumba.uhasselt.be/takis/git/ffmpeg-h264-test.git/
Getting pack list for http://lumumba.uhasselt.be/takis/git/ffmpeg-h264-test.git/
progress: 0 objects, 0 bytes
cg-clone: interrupted


With the packed/prune-packed repository it just hangs with the "progress: 0
objects, 0 bytes" message. So, I decided to have look what might be going on, if
any data was actually getting in and that I was maybe just being to impatient:

takis@poseidon:/tmp/a$ ps x|grep git
18386 pts/9    S+     0:00 /bin/sh /home/takis/bin/git-clone http://lumumba.uhasselt.be/takis/git/ffmpeg-h264-test.git
18400 pts/9    S+     0:00 git-http-fetch -v -a -w heads/master heads/master http://lumumba.uhasselt.be/takis/git/ffmpeg-h264-test.git/
18416 pts/10   S+     0:00 grep git

takis@poseidon:/tmp/a$ strace -f -p 18400
Process 18400 attached - interrupt to quit
select(0, [], [], [], {0, 48000})       = 0 (Timeout)
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0)     = 0
gettimeofday({1160169868, 454932}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1160169868, 454989}, NULL) = 0
select(0, [], [], [], {0, 50000})       = 0 (Timeout)
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0)     = 0
gettimeofday({1160169868, 506226}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1160169868, 506277}, NULL) = 0
select(0, [], [], [], {0, 50000})       = 0 (Timeout)
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0)     = 0
gettimeofday({1160169868, 558245}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1160169868, 558296}, NULL) = 0
select(0, [], [], [], {0, 50000})       = 0 (Timeout)
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0)     = 0
gettimeofday({1160169868, 610227}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1160169868, 610277}, NULL) = 0
...

And this goes on and on and on... and there seems to be no data getting in.
(Ofcourse at first I had just done a "du -h" of the clone target dir, but that
didn't grow. To make sure git wasn't using a hidden dir somewhere or keeping all
the pulled-in-data in-memory or something, I decided to look with strace).

What am I doing wrong? Any hints?

I am using the current git-GIT.

Thanks in advance for any replies! :)

With friendly regards,
Takis

[1] I know about the "-l" and "-s" flags, but I wanted to be 100% sure that it
were just copies, and no references would be pointing from here to there...