From 627ee14612ba942c781c37568493f1d58e6bb275 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: woffs Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:24:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- ...58___every_sync_uploads_huge_manifest.mdwn | 28 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/bugs/gcrypt_remote__58___every_sync_uploads_huge_manifest.mdwn diff --git a/doc/bugs/gcrypt_remote__58___every_sync_uploads_huge_manifest.mdwn b/doc/bugs/gcrypt_remote__58___every_sync_uploads_huge_manifest.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f136b25b3e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/gcrypt_remote__58___every_sync_uploads_huge_manifest.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +### Please describe the problem. + +every sync (without --content) to a gcrypt remote uploads huge amount of data (>100MB) when doing + + gcrypt: Requesting manifest signature + +It seems to upload a special git object every time, even if this object is apparently unchanged. An unencrypted, regular git remote is much faster and does not transfer such amounts of data. + +I wonder if this can be changed, because it renders that gcrypt remote almost unusable via ADSL upstream. In my case the sync duration was 36 Minutes, uploading ~250MB. + +### What steps will reproduce the problem? + +Have a (bare) gcrypt remote and a rather big (mine has 77668 keys, annexing 769GB of files) git-annex repository. Sync with the gcrypt remote. When pushing, the message "gcrypt: Requesting manifest signature" appears, and a very large amount of data is transferred to the remote, while the process chain + + git-remote-gcrypt mygcrypt ssh://mygcrypt/home/my/annex + git push --quiet -f ssh://mygcrypt/home/my/annex refs/gcrypt/gitception+:refs/heads/master + ssh mygcrypt git-receive-pack '/home/my/annex' + git pack-objects --all-progress-implied --revs --stdout --thin --delta-base-offset -q + +is running. The upload of the actual changeset starts after this, the processes look the same, transferring again a more or less big amount of data (depending on the changeset size, I guess). + +### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? + +6.20170101-1 on Debian Stretch (9.0) + +### Have you had any luck using git-annex before? (Sometimes we get tired of reading bug reports all day and a lil' positive end note does wonders) + +git-annex is great and revolutionized my file organization and backup structure (if they were even existing before)