On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 11:55:26AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Maxim Cournoyer skribis: > > It did end up working fine, although it took a large amout of time for > > doing what seems to be a checkout (4 min 46 s). I did some experiments > > and this is really the time it took to do a full clone of the libssh > > project. [...] > > It's a bit of a shame, given that the shallow clone takes about 2 > > seconds (!): Yeah, it's incredibly slow. The repo is not even 10 MB. At first, I too thought the HTTPS clone had stalled. Protocol duration ------------------------ https:// 217 sec git:// 10 sec git:// shallow 1.5 sec And of course, the shallow clone is 3.6 MB instead of 10 MB. > Switching to the git:// transport would seem like a reasonable > workaround—we’d lose encryption and authentication, but the latter is > covered by the content hash in the ‘origin’ anyway. > > WDYT, Leo? Overall, I think the slowness doesn't matter too much, since we offer substitutes for the patched source code. However, here is a patch. Please feel free to apply it! I'll ask the libssh team to support "smart" HTTP Git.