[Conkeror] the git is extremely slow

[Jeremy Maitin-Shepard]

Philip Weaver <philip.weaver at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 6:37 AM, John J Foerch <jjfoerch at earthlink.net>wrote:
>> "Chengqi(Lars) Song" <songcq at gmail.com> writes:
>> > my internet access is rather good in fact, so i dont know if i did
>> something wrong or the connection from hong kong to repo.or.cz is slow.
>> > the output of git clone is:
>> >
>> >   lars:/tmp$ git clone git://repo.or.cz/conkeror.git
>> >   Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/conkeror/.git/
>> >   remote: Counting objects: 7395, done.
>> >   remote: CompressingReceiving objects:   0% (1/7395)
>> >
>> > then the remote compessing will take 1-2 hours and receiving objects will
>> take another 1-2 hours.
>> >
>> > thanks
>> > lars
>> 
>> It's probably just "one of those things"--a slow link somewhere between
>> Hong Kong and Czechoslovakia.  But once you have made one clone, you
>> never have to clone again, so it shouldn't be a big problem.
>> 

> Could we perhaps mirror the repo on something like github?

Well, you could set up a mirror, I suppose.  However, I haven't had any
problems with repo.or.cz so far.  It seems just like a routing problem
that Chengqi Song is experiencing, though.

Chengqi Song: Do you also find that the websites hosted on repo.or.cz
are slow as well, such as http://repo.or.cz/about.html ?

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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard