Git clone fails randomly

[ngautha1-ford]

The pipeline gets stuck on the get task and fails after a while (~20 mins) .
The issue is intermittent and when it works the cloning part just takes under a minute. Does anyone have any idea why this happens and if there is any workaround for it ?

Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/build/get/.git/
Switched to a new branch 'master'
2021/06/18 14:58:57 get failed: clone failed: exit status 1

[rickardl]

I believe it's somewhat unrelated and is probably a question better answered in the Git Resource repository, also I would recommend you to try to enable a more verbose output from Concourse, there's some instructions on their end on how you do that.

[bgandon]

Unfortunately, there is no hope that you get any further support here (#246 was 2+y ago).

But recent news is that the Cloud Foundry community is now maintaining a fork of this resource at cloudfoundry-community/github-pr-resource.

On our Concourse installation at Gstack, that one is working fine. Could you give a try and provide feedback there?

(the new resource is a drop-in replacement; you only have to switch telia-ossto cfcommunity in in the resource_types: declaration, i.e. specify repository: cfcommunity/github-pr-resource)

[awnumar]

@bgandon I have tested with github.com/cloudfoundry-community/github-pr-resource and can confirm we see the same issue with that resource for a large repository.

• Initial get is extremely slow, hangs on Switched to a new branch 'master' and generally takes a long time to work, or more likely fail, after 20 minutes.
• Put is also very slow, and we can't speed it up with skip_download because the put requires Version info that's attained from the implicit get, and we can't use depth:1 because then it fails with fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories

[bgandon]

Sorry for the delay. I've ported your issue and feedback in cloudfoundry-community#11