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Shaun Wilde
Shaun Wilde

Reputation: 8358

Why is cloning from github so slow

Pulling a repo from github and it is very, very slow and I can't work out why.

C:\projects>git clone --depth 1 [email protected]:sawilde/opencover.git
Cloning into 'opencover'...
The authenticity of host 'github.com (192.30.255.112)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is SHA256:nThbg........................................
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'github.com,192.30.255.112' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
remote: Enumerating objects: 1459, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1459/1459), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (829/829), done.
Receiving objects:  95% (1388/1459), 14.09 MiB | 8.00 KiB/s

I've tried a few things e.g. windows and ubuntu (via windows subsytem), full vs shallow clone, ssh vs https, ... etc, and I get the same slow behaviour; 30mins to get to 14MiB? I don't recall it being this bad.

Very frustrated as I get good speeds on general downloads and not sure why it is this slow to clone a repo...

Upvotes: 23

Views: 49343

Answers (3)

gpbaculio
gpbaculio

Reputation: 5968

Downloading the zip worked for me:

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Upvotes: 2

Kim
Kim

Reputation: 81

Switching from using ssh to https did it for me.

Upvotes: 8

fernandez
fernandez

Reputation: 226

Likely a temporary routing issue on the service provider's end, but GitHub has a debug site where you can run a few tests and then send them the outputs for further investigation. The site can be found here:

https://github-debug.com/

Upvotes: 20

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