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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/annex_get_over_SSH_is_very_slow.mdwn | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn | 3 |
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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"]] diff --git a/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn b/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn index 98b49b84a..cfde2fb92 100644 --- a/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/windows_support.mdwn @@ -12,3 +12,6 @@ now! --[[Joey]] * Bad file locking, it's probably not safe to run more than one git-annex process at the same time on Windows. * No support for the assistant or webapp. +* Ssh connection caching does not work on Windows, so `git annex get` + has to connect twice to the remote system over ssh per file, which + is much slower than on systems supporting connection caching. |