Le Thu, 31 May 2018 20:12:53 +0200,
Sl�vek Banko <slavek.banko@...> a �crit :

> On Thursday 31 of May 2018 19:36:06 Sl�vek Banko wrote:
> > On Thursday 31 of May 2018 10:21:24 gregory guy wrote:  
> > > Hi there!
> > >
> > > Sorry to step in the devs's room but I'm seeking information about
> > > git uses to clone the TDE repository.
> > >
> > > Yesterday I applyed the method displayed in the wiki, namely:
> > >
> > > - git clone https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tde
> > > - cd tde
> > > - git submodule init -- scripts
> > > - git submodule update -- scripts
> > > - ./scripts/switch_all_submodules_to_head_and_clean anonymous
> > >
> > > After more than 6 hours of downloading (at an average of 70 kib/s)
> > > the connexion stopped and wouldn't restart properly.
> > > I don't think I can fetch the entire project history in those
> > > conditions, this would take days...I guess!
> > >
> > > Is there a way to shorten the cloning in order to get the last
> > > code? I tryed with "--depth=1" but I was rather unsuccessfull on
> > > the matter.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > gregory  
> >
> > Hi Gregory,
> >
> > this is strange behavior. VPS for hosting
> > mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org is on a 300 Mbps bandwidth.
> > Therefore, I do not suppose there should be a problem with the
> > speed of this server.
> >
> > Please, can you check what the urls for the submodules are in
> > tde/.git/config? Are these urls correctly replaced to
> > mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org or stay referenced to the
> > scm.trinitydesktop.org (master server)?
> >
> > Cheers  
> 
> Ok, now I've tried to measure the first step with two different
> services on the same server:
> 
> $ time git clone https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tde
> Cloning into 'tde'...
> 
> real    0m59.683s
> user    0m27.600s
> sys     0m2.452s
> 
> $ time git clone https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tde
> Cloning into 'tde'...
> remote: Counting objects: 60857, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (22885/22885), done.
> remote: Total 60857 (delta 39752), reused 56119 (delta 36438)
> Receiving objects: 100% (60857/60857), 30.45 MiB | 23.63 MiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (39752/39752), done.
> 
> Please also try using Gitea instead of the CGit interface.
> It looks like Gitea could be an advantage!
> 
> Cheers

Oh my gosh, gitea is so much faster!
Each submodule usually tops my broadband at 1.5MIB/s.

Slavek, thank you for the dodge and everyone for their input on the
matter.

Regards.
gregory