Re: No more releases: savannah sometimes does not like git fetch --depth

[Colin Campbell]

On 11-06-09 06:59 AM, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 01:32:29PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> > Graham Percival Thursday, June 09, 2011 12:03 PM
> > > Past discussion suggests that this is a network-specific bug or
> > > something, which absolutely sucks for debugging.
> > I've attached an email which explains a similar problem
> > I had just over a year ago.  You'll see the full
> > explanation there, together with a maybe fortuitous
> > local fix.  There's no way of telling if this problem
> > is the same, but it looks more than possible.
> Unfortunately the MTU stuff is completely over my head, but I will
> note that doing
>    git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git
> works 100% of the time ("works" meaning "I saw 'remote: counting
> objects' within 5 seconds)
>
> whereas
>    git clone --depth 1 git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git
> works about 5% of the time ("not working" defined as "did not see
> any 'remote: counting objects' within 30 seconds)
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
> _______________________________________________


Also, git clone git:// etc has allowed me to resume doing git pull -r 
reliably.

Colin

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