I once blogged about cloning big repositories after experiencing the mammoth Android's repos were: http://www.harshj.com/2010/08/29/a-less-known-thing-about-cloning-git-repositories/
Try a git clone with a --depth=1 option, to reduce total download by not getting all the history objects. This would have some side-effects vs. a regular clone, but should be fine for contributions. On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:53 PM, mugisha moses <mossp...@gmail.com> wrote: > The whole repo is like 290 mb so make sure you have a decent internet > connection > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 9:03 PM, maisnam ns <maisnam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks Andrew for your suggestion,I will clone it from the mirror. > > > > Regards > > Niranjan Singh > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Andrew Wang <andrew.w...@cloudera.com > > >wrote: > > > > > Hi Niranjan, > > > > > > Try doing your initial clone from the github mirror instead, I found it > > to > > > be much faster: > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/hadoop-common > > > > > > I use the apache git for subsequent pulls. > > > > > > Best, > > > Andrew > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:15 PM, maisnam ns <maisnam...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I am trying to execute ----- git clone git:// > > > > git.apache.org/hadoop-common.git so that I could setup a development > > > > environment for Hadoop under the Eclipse IDE but it is taking too > much > > > > time. > > > > > > > > Can somebody let me know why it is taking too much time, I have a > high > > > > speed internet connection and I don't think connectivity is the issue > > > here. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Niranjan Singh > > > > > > > > > > -- Harsh J
