git clone project with large file freeze

Question

I git clone a project from gitlab server, the project has a large file about 90Mb, git command will be freeze, i have tried serveral times but get the same result. The freeze state as follow:

Cloning into 'GPU-HOOK'...
remote: Counting objects: 29, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (27/27), done.
Receiving objects:  24% (7/29), 41.99 MiB | 430.00 KiB/s

how to deal with it?

Does it ever recover? By "freeze" do you mean "keeps hanging forever" or simply "takes a very long time"? If the latter, how long is long? — Lasse V. Karlsen, Apr 10 '17 at 08:15
Try `SET GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1` and `SET GIT_TRACE=1`, and then rerun the git command, this will output a lot of debug information, see if you spot anything there that might explain it. — Lasse V. Karlsen, Apr 10 '17 at 09:16

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

Check in your GitLab server configuration file (gitlab.yml) the value of max_size:

  ## Git settings
  # CAUTION!
  # Use the default values unless you really know what you are doing
  git:
    bin_path: /usr/bin/git
    # The next value is the maximum memory size grit can use
    # Given in number of bytes per git object (e.g. a commit)
    # This value can be increased if you have very large commits
    max_size: 20971520 # 20.megabytes
    # Git timeout to read a commit, in seconds
    timeout: 10

You also can have a similar setting in your web server frontend (NGiNX for instance)

But if you are using an ssh url, that would not matter. Check instead your own local ssh config.

git clone project with large file freeze

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