Any Github Experts online ?

Wed Feb 22 23:55:30 UTC 2017

Also, performing a git clone or git pull is significantly different than downloading a tarball. Someone correct me if I am wrong but Git essentially has to reconstruct the files from its internal data structures. If you clone a large repository with a lot of history it will take longer than a smaller repository with less history.

> On Feb 22, 2017, at 3:47 PM, Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote:
> 
> If they are using 'git pull', or 'git push' for example, they may be
> accessing the data via HTTPS or SSH.
> 
> Can your user do a 'git remote -v' and see if they are connecting via
> HTTPS or SSH to assist you with troubleshooting?
> 
> Then see if it's something specific to one or the other and if it's
> specific to github or all sites.
> 
> -A
> 
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Bob Evans <bob at fiberinternetcenter.com> wrote:
>> Hello NANOGers,
>> 
>> I have one customer that claims that 2 out of 17 downloads using the git
>> command on github's service are slow and poor on our network when compared
>> to others.
>> 
>> However, when not using the git command , but using a simple web page link
>> to a large zipped file from github, its always nice and fast. Using the
>> git command 8% of the time being slow is unacceptable. Github just doesnt
>> responds lethargically at best. BTW, have you seen how many hex digits a
>> github ticket number is ?
>> 
>> Of course Github says try a different ISP...Customer tries to tell me
>> comcast is better ! What ! I dont believe it. No help from Github NOC - we
>> have asked and asked... And we peer with Github and for some reason they
>> do not transmit the Prefixes of the IP range that the customer uses for
>> the git command.  github.com resolve IPv4 is not in the prefix list. So
>> the exit is transits.
>> 
>> I need more clues. Is it the resources the git command uses when checking
>> files for dates etc ?
>> 
>> Thank You
>> Bob Evans
>> CTO
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 