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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-07-07 13:57:56 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-07-07 13:57:56 -0400 |
| commit | 4f1cacd30bb4adc16644436b56c56719c6128fcb (patch) | |
| tree | 5b9a5c1f4be7d6563c3af61e1b50f03e3ccf2ca3 /doc/bugs/annex_get_over_SSH_is_very_slow.mdwn | |
| parent | b73866913c3fb0e743a054a889a4fde3307fe507 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/annex_get_over_SSH_is_very_slow.mdwn b/doc/bugs/annex_get_over_SSH_is_very_slow.mdwn index c3ebd10aa..215e725e9 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/annex_get_over_SSH_is_very_slow.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/annex_get_over_SSH_is_very_slow.mdwn @@ -14,3 +14,20 @@ Attempting to populate one annex from another over an SSH connection is very slo Windows 7: 4.20140627-g8a36ec5 (from the git-annex download page) Debian Linux: 3.20120629 (from the package manager) + +> The problem is that git-annex is designed to be used with ssh connection +> caching. However, I have not gotten ssh connection caching to work on +> Windows. I did try getting this to work with IIRC, cygwin's ssh, but +> it seems that the Unix sockets it expects to use with `-o ControlMaster` +> don't work, or it's not been ported to use the Windows equivilant. +> +> It's not practical to make git-annex reuse a single ssh connection +> itself, due to the way rsync is run over ssh. +> +> Since this is basically a bug in ssh for Windows, and not in git-annex +> per se, I am going to close this bug report. However, I do mention +> this in [[todo/windows_support]]. +> +> [[done]] --[[Joey]] + +[[!meta title="No ssh connection caching support on Windows"]] |