Re: git repository via http broken

[Jakob Lombacher <kontakt@lombacher.net>]

No I haven't waited long enough. :-S It took so long, that somehow I
thought it was broken ... sry.


Thanks for your help!

Jakob

2012/6/27 Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>:
> Jakob Lombacher <kontakt@lombacher.net> wrote:
>
>> That I misunderstood. I thought this URL was for cloning as well.
>> Because there I got at least that error message es response.
>>
>> Using  http://orgmode.org/org-mode.git I don't get any response at all.
>>
>
> Did you wait long enough? http is *very* slow and there is no progress
> feedback during the cloning:
>
> ,----
> | $ time git clone http://orgmode.org/org-mode.git
> | Cloning into org-mode...
> |
> | real  5m5.885s
> | user  0m22.610s
> | sys   0m3.660s
> `----
>
> Using the system monitor applet in Gnome, I see my (gigabit ethernet)
> link getting pretty much saturated and I see regular "ticks" on the
> disk, so things get trasmitted and saved, but it took more than five
> minutes for the whole thing to clone (vs. 2.5 mins for a clone over git
> - which also meters progress so you can that it's doing something).
>
> OTOH, atm I'm not behind a firewall and it's conceivable that your IT
> department has shut off access to orgmode somehow. I'd talk to them
> about it. Also, if they provide a socks proxy, you might be able to
> clone over git using socksify or tsocks and avoid the pain of http.
>
> Nick
>
> PS BTW, I know that git gc is recommended on local repos, but is that
>   applicable to the repo on orgmode.org? and would that help with the
>   cloning time?  2.5 mins seems long to me. If not gc, is there
>   something else that would help?
>
>
>> Is there a possibility to clone orgmode via http?
>>
>> Jakob
>>
>>
>>
>> 2012/6/26 Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>:
>> > Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:
>> >
>> >> Jakob Lombacher <kontakt@lombacher.net> writes:
>> >
>> >>> Btw.
>> >>> Here (http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html) are two different
>> >>> url's given (http://orgmode.org/w/org-mode.git and
>> >>> http://orgmode.org/org-mode.git). This is confusing.
>> >
>> >> git clone http://orgmode.org/org-mode.git
>> >>
>> >
>> >> If you confirm that the above URL works without the /w/ I can fix the
>> >> Worg page.
>> >
>> > I can't find any references to the http://orgmode.org/w/org-mode.git for
>> > *cloning* the repository in worg.  These links are for users to browse
>> > the repository online - not for cloning with git.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Bernt
>>