fetching from gerrit is extremely slow

[Itamar Heim]

On 01/22/2014 03:48 PM, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 08:32:07AM -0500, Omer Frenkel wrote:
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "David Caro Estevez" <dcaroest at redhat.com>
>>> To: "Omer Frenkel" <ofrenkel at redhat.com>
>>> Cc: "infra" <infra at ovirt.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 3:16:54 PM
>>> Subject: Re: fetching from gerrit is extremely slow
>>>
>>> Most common cause for this issue is TLV rehdat office out bandwidth. Are you
>>> tring to connect from TLV RedHat office?
>>>
>>
>> yes :(
>
> Not that I have any idea how RH TLV is setup, but I wonder if a local
> mirror could be set up. It wouldn't solve the push speed, but at least
> fetching could be sped up.
>

this could be a good idea, but upgrading our bandwidth is in the works, 
lets revisit adding complexity if it doesn't solve the issue.


> Personally I have the following in my ~/.gitconfig:
>
> [url "git://gerrit.ovirt.org/"]
>          insteadOf = "ovirt:"
> [url "ssh://USERNAME@gerrit.ovirt.org:29418/"]
> 	pushInsteadOf = "ovirt:"
>
> Then I clone my repos as:
>
> git clone ovirt:vdsm -o gerrit
>
> This results in the following:
>
> $ git remote -v
> gerrit	git://gerrit.ovirt.org/vdsm (fetch)
> gerrit	ssh://USERNAME@gerrit.ovirt.org:29418/vdsm (push)
>
> RH TLV users could then change their fetch URL to the local mirror.
>
> Given RH TLV should set this up, I'm mostly looking at Itamar to see if
> this is an acceptable solution.
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