From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hallvard Breien Furuseth Subject: Re: Any tips for improving the performance of cloning large repositories? Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:39:05 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Alex Bennee X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Dec 16 14:39:18 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RbY0L-00035E-4x for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:39:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759133Ab1LPNjK (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:39:10 -0500 Received: from mail-out1.uio.no ([129.240.10.57]:37052 "EHLO mail-out1.uio.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755827Ab1LPNjI (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:39:08 -0500 Received: from mail-mx1.uio.no ([129.240.10.29]) by mail-out1.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 4.75) (envelope-from ) id 1RbY0B-0006nP-PL; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:39:07 +0100 Received: from bombur.uio.no ([129.240.6.233]) by mail-mx1.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RbY0B-0003G1-B7; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:39:07 +0100 Received: by bombur.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2112) id 06384E26; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:39:05 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 23.1.1 X-UiO-Ratelimit-Test: rcpts/h 7 msgs/h 3 sum rcpts/h 10 sum msgs/h 4 total rcpts 2054 max rcpts/h 17 ratelimit 0 X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-7.0, required=5.0, autolearn=disabled, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-2.023,UIO_MAIL_IS_INTERNAL=-5, uiobl=NO, uiouri=NO) X-UiO-Scanned: DDD1AE0EABA9302A5CEFE220556F6EAA48214859 X-UiO-SPAM-Test: remote_host: 129.240.6.233 spam_score: -69 maxlevel 80 minaction 2 bait 0 mail/h: 3 total 883 max/h 5 blacklist 0 greylist 0 ratelimit 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I wrote: > Do you often need to clone from a remote? Instead of cloning from a > local (git clone --mirror) which gets auto-updated from the remote. Er, obviously not, since you tried that with rsync. Create the mirror with 'git clone --mirror', then update it with 'git fetch' rather than rsync. -- Hallvard