From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Langhoff Subject: Re: Performance issue: initial git clone causes massive repack Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:11:15 +0200 Message-ID: <46a038f90904070311n6606e678y43f716cbc05a397f@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090404220743.GA869@curie-int> <20090405000536.GA12927@vidovic> <20090405T001239Z@curie.orbis-terrarum.net> <20090405035453.GB12927@vidovic> <20090405070412.GB869@curie-int> <20090405190213.GA12929@vidovic> <20090405225954.GA18730@vidovic> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: david@lang.hm, "Robin H. Johnson" , Git Mailing List To: Nicolas Sebrecht X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 07 12:13:07 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lr8Ig-0003m1-U2 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:13:03 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752379AbZDGKLT (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2009 06:11:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751802AbZDGKLT (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2009 06:11:19 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.218.169]:46686 "EHLO mail-bw0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750977AbZDGKLS (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2009 06:11:18 -0400 Received: by bwz17 with SMTP id 17so2233143bwz.37 for ; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:11:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=pUOOveud4mAboFKNE0H98RNKbM8OCiQHjBNSkzaHZM0=; b=FhbqBJIbX3u8y1ZfWL2KcDnSzmw1hEaUWVzlIDh5YR8hFRpHSzhp5mSCQEKW1qI8Rq dO+GMLOs8/Vwn5Snk1u0ldmfQ3IlPapH6TbDmrvw1VgTnZOn6fiVDl9X6NJArTfzEpdF OoYNHNFgrTih13KL4Pct0Cjv6xusk2Rpv7hwg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=cmq2AS5vrU77uzM6Eeh+GPJ702EJQhF1del/nNY1uFdy0v/VHofL1N6rdt5j9JsJVi j6BXkeQIt8LAeGAeONUwnYuKex75FzSpM/2220lDax1UNH5VLRWdUktFUHqTiMdYirrz C2uwcvZRQQUhMCCzRy9+TjYsmYLM23CM5alMs= Received: by 10.223.103.194 with SMTP id l2mr4174599fao.55.1239099075313; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:11:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090405225954.GA18730@vidovic> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > What about the rsync solution given in this thread? Also, HTTP is excellent for initial clones, possibly better than rsync in some cases. The Gentoo team has good reasons to do things their way, and it's IMHO a wart in git that initial clones of large repos. But we do have valid workarounds (as above) so they can use them . cheers, martin -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff