Re: git fetching

From: Ryan Anderson
Date: Thu Dec 29 2005 - 20:19:15 EST


Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 06:53:42PM -0600, Alejandro Bonilla wrote:
> > Why is it that when I git fetch, this particular part takes a long time?
> >
> > pack/pack-2dae6bb81ac4383926b1d6a646e3f73b130ba124.pack
> >
> > Normally, they go pretty fast, but when a new rc or final releases comes
> > up, it takes a lot.
>
> That file is ~100MB. That'll take a while to download compared to the rest,
> even on the fastest net connection :)

If you're carrying around a mostly current tree, you should probably not
use "rsync" (which is probably why you're seeing that pack line)

Run this:
sed -i.old -e 's/rsync/git/' .git/remotes/origin
and your pulls should go significantly faster.

(The file named "origin" might be in .git/branches/, also.)

You want the file to contain pretty much just this line:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

Also, out of curiosity, do:
du -sh .git/objects/ .git/objects/pack/

You shouldn't see a .git/objects/pack/ much greater than 200 meg, in
fact, on freshly cloned tree it would only be about 100 meg:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/objects/pack/

--

Ryan Anderson
sometimes Pug Majere

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