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Does EGit 5.x support the Git protocol version 2? [message #1794862]

Sun, 09 September 2018 07:55

Holger Voormann

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Registered: July 2009

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Since JGit 5.0 the Git protocol version 2 is supported.

Can the Git protocol version 2 be used in EGit and if so, what is required (e. g. does Git have to be installed on the command line?) and for which actions are there performance advantages?

What I've been trying to do so far:

Preconditions: Eclipse IDE for Java Developers 2018-09 RC1 (containing EGit/JGit 5.1), but no Git on the command line (on Windows 10)
In global configuration (Windows > Preferences: Team > Git > Configuration: User Settings) add key "protocol.version" with value "2"
Clone Git repository "https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git" (which is said to support the Git protocol version 2) branch "ignore/bar" only

Result actual: Apparently no speed differences to without "protocol.version" set to "2".
Expected: Faster cloning of a single branch with "protocol.version" set to "2".

I also tried without success with a bare repository, configured "protocol.version" at the repository and then fetched the branch.

Does EGit 5.x not support the protocol, did I missed to configure something or is there no visible speed difference in the selected example repository when executing clone?

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Re: Does EGit 5.x support the Git protocol version 2? [message #1794866 is a reply to message #1794862]

Sun, 09 September 2018 17:01

Thomas Wolf

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Registered: August 2016

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Cloning the chromium repo transfers some 12.32 GB. I would expect any timings be dominated by the time needed to do this transfer, not by the time needed for the initial ref advertisement.

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Re: Does EGit 5.x support the Git protocol version 2? [message #1794867 is a reply to message #1794866]

Sun, 09 September 2018 17:40

Holger Voormann

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Registered: July 2009

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Hi Thomas,

Thank you for your answer and your work as JGit and EGit committer.

Are there any operations other than clone where the advantages of the new protocol can be seen? Or another public repository where the differences become visible?

Git protocol 2 also supports partial cloning, but this is not yet supported by JGit/EGit, right?

Thanks,

Holger

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Re: Does EGit 5.x support the Git protocol version 2? [message #1794907 is a reply to message #1794867]

Mon, 10 September 2018 17:05

Thomas Wolf

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Registered: August 2016

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Holger,

take the following with a grain of salt; I haven't followed the protocol V2 implementation closely.

It looks to me that most of the work done in JGit for protocol V2 was for the server side (UploadPack, handling git fetch). I don't see client-side improvements (for instance, I think JGit's LsRemoteCommand (git ls-remote) should be able to exploit the new ls-refs command of protocol V2 to let the server do the filtering).

I also don't see anything in Gerrit yet; I would have expected at least something to handle the GIT_PROTOCOL variable when the ssh protocol is used, but didn't find anything.

So to me this looks unfinished. But then, maybe I was looking in the wrong places...

But post on jgit-dev; there you have a better chance of one of the Google people who implemented this answering.

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