Re: How to clone faster via ssh ?

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.

Yeah ! Thanks.

Version for todays master branch works much faster:
lan@lan:~/tmp/git/billing> time git-clone -n 
ssh://lan@lan/home/lan/tmp/git/billing/repo r1
defaulting to local storage area
lan@lan's password:
Packing 204607 objects

real    4m0.107s
user    0m11.879s
sys     0m1.717s

And it makes only one pack. Great.