Re: on git cloning src.git

groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) writes:

In article <87plvd2584.fsf@tudado.org>,
Johanne Fairchild  <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote:

My download rate begins megabytes per second, but then it lowers to KiB
per second and at this run, I got ``invalid index-pack''.  Am I having
network problems?  This is the cheapest virtual machine in AWS.

>
Are you able to clone the mirror hosted on GitHub?
<URL:https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports.git>

The speed began high---27 MiB/s---, but then it fell, stalled and ended
with this error.

%git clone -o freebsd https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports.git
Cloning into 'freebsd-ports'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 6156144, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (16085/16085), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (11075/11075), done.
Receiving objects:  81% (4995725/6156144), 1.98 GiB | 1.19 MiB/s

error: RPC failed; curl 92 HTTP/2 stream 5 was not closed cleanly: CANCEL (err 8)
error: 6065 bytes of body are still expected
fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet
fatal: early EOF
fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output
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%git --version
git version 2.43.0

Let me run it again so you can have a notion of how long it takes.

%time git clone -o freebsd https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports.git
Cloning into 'freebsd-ports'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 6156144, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (16085/16085), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (11075/11075), done.
error: RPC failed; curl 56 Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
error: 6881 bytes of body are still expected
fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet
fatal: early EOF
fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output
      309.22 real         0.44 user         2.83 sys
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