Re: How to clone faster via ssh ?

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Alexander Litvinov wrote:

quoted

Forgot to tell:
clone via ssh was made using this command:
time git-clone -n ssh://lan@lan/home/lan/tmp/git/billing/repo r3

If you have a working git on the other side, you could do

	time git-clone lan@lan:/home/lan/tmp/git/billing/repo r3

which would utilize git-clone-pack. Way faster.

I think both of these notations do the same.

The time to unpack the resulting pack on this end is eliminated
if you use git from last week, namely this commit:

commit e1c7ada6dd1fdf249d0bb84f3293d3be768b9239
Author: Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]
Date:   Wed Oct 19 14:43:43 2005 -0700

    git-clone: always keep pack sent from remote.

    This deprecates --keep and -q flags and always keeps the
    pack
    sent from the remote site.  Corresponding configuration
    variables are also removed.

    Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]

But you would still pay for creating a pack on the remote side.