Subject: Re: git clone: very long "resolving deltas" phase

From: Vitaly Berov <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:28:04 +0400

On 04/06/2010 07:01 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Vitaly Berov<[email-masked]>  writes:
>
>> We have quite a large repository and "git clone" takes about 6 hours. Herewith
>> "resolving deltas" takes most of the time.
>> What git does at this stage and how can we optimize it?
>
> Does running "git gc" (long, but done once and for all) on the server
> help?
>
Didn't try this one, but I'll give it a try, thanks.

And what does this stage do?