Re: git fetching

[Qi Yong]

Ryan Anderson wrote:

> 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.
>  

I don't have the directory .git/remotes/. Here's .git/FETCH_HEAD however.

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

Yes, here's .git/branches/origin.

-- Coywolf

> 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/
>
>  

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