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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: Problem with git-clone
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:17:43 -0400
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Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a reproducible problem with git-index-pack getting stuck. 
> Is this a known problem fixed in one of the later releases? 

Are you on Mac OS X?  We found that earlier versions of index-pack on
that platform ran poorly unless we used pread().  A change was made
in 1.5.0 to switch to pread for all platforms, which significantly
improved performance.
 
> git --version
> git version 1.4.4.2

I'd upgrade your Git, the current version is 1.5.1.1.

-- 
Shawn.