[llvm-dev] OT: Cloning llvm repo over low speed connection != fun

[Renato Golin via llvm-dev]

On 19 August 2016 at 16:22, C Bergström <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Have you ever stayed in a non-hilton hotel while traveling? I don't
> mean couch surfing, but just average place.. I'd even add some above
> average places to the list and when you get 100 people all on the same
> line.. it can get "slow"...

I've been to many places while going to Connects, events and sprints,
and I can attest that hotels, no matter how many stars, have horrible
Internet connection.

One hotel we had to tell the admin to stop throttling SSH and also to
allow connections to more ports than just 25, 80 and 443.

But that affected *everybody*. Using Git or SVN, using Windows or
Linux, trying to download Linux, LLVM, GCC, Linaro stuff.

So, while I do literally feel your pain around 5 weeks per year, so
does every one else in the same situation. There are no solutions to
that problem other than "not going there", which for me, really isn't
an option.

Bottom line is, clone your repos before going away and always keep an
updated repo in a backup, so you can use it to considerably reduce the
download time on remote places.

cheers,
--renato