Hi Ori,
I'm at the office now, but (heh) that may be a tougher test than my home connection. More below....
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Ori Livneh ori@wikimedia.org wrote:
Rob, thanks for checking. I tried it yesterday and again just now, and in both cases it took around 15 minutes:
vagrant@precise32:~$ time git clone --depth 1 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git Cloning into 'core'... remote: Counting objects: 46297, done remote: Finding sources: 100% (46297/46297) remote: Getting sizes: 100% (25843/25843) remote: Compressing objects: 76% (19864/25833) remote: Total 46297 (delta 33063), reused 26399 (delta 20010) Receiving objects: 100% (46297/46297), 102.66 MiB | 194 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (37898/37898), done.
real 15m14.500s user 0m27.562s sys 0m13.421s
The output of 'git config --list' is blank; this is vanilla git. 'Compressing objects' took the longest.
For comparison:
vagrant@precise32:~$ time wget -q https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/archive/master.zip && unzip -x -q master.zip
real 1m15.592s user 0m0.184s sys 0m3.480s
I'm on Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal), so that might have something to do with it. $ git --version git version 1.7.10.4
$ time git clone --depth 1 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git core-shallow Cloning into 'core-shallow'... remote: Counting objects: 3456, done remote: Finding sources: 100% (3456/3456) remote: Getting sizes: 100% (3074/3074) remote: Compressing objects: 63% (1958/3069) remote: Total 3456 (delta 690), reused 1496 (delta 379) Receiving objects: 100% (3456/3456), 18.71 MiB | 1.49 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (816/816), done.
real 0m34.507s user 0m4.252s sys 0m0.940s
I wasn't able to find anything in the Git release notes to indicate anything different on the client side, though I didn't look too hard. However, it appears as though JGit server-side support for shallow clones is relatively recent: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=394543
...characterized here as "coming along bit by bit": http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/jgit-dev/msg01976.html
...which would imply that maybe the JGit server side stuff hasn't been tested with a lot of client versions.
Rob