Installing git feature is slow

[mataslib]

Is it normal that git feature takes about ~10 minutes to install? It's even building some kind of translations...

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Win11
Wsl2
Docker for desktop
Dell XPS 9570, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz, 2208 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s), 64 GB ram, 1 TB SSD Samsung 980

[samruddhikhandale]

Are you using the default options for the git Feature? If not, then can you paste the values in here?

With default options, it takes 12.7 sec - action run

With ppa:false, git is built from source and it takes ~4.5 mins - action run

[mataslib]

Screenshot was taken having this configuration:

"ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/git": {
      "version": "latest",
      "ppa": false
}

However, I had also tried with ppa: true, I stopped the installation when there was ~800 seconds and counting - that takes even more time on my machine than ppa: false.

[mataslib]

With ppa:true It hangs on => => # (*) Downloading GPG key...

[mataslib]

Alright "version": "latest" is culprit. With it deleted and ppa: false it is done in 0.5 seconds. Thank you for help! I don't know what is wrong with "version": "latest" however It seems to me that it can happen to lot of devs and should be somehow prevented.

Maybe latest is not valid value for git feature? I have probably coppied config from another feature like docker-in-docker and just wanted latest git therefore it seemed okay to me.

[Chuxel]

@mataslib Linux distributions ship git inside them, but only one version. The PPA option on Ubuntu allows the use of pre-built versions of git other than the one in the distro. In other cases, it has to be compiled to be installed, which takes a while. This is generally a problem with things that are a core part of Linux distros (e.g. Python has similar challenges).

Using os-provided (which is the default if you omit version) will use whatever is in the distro.

You can pre-build your image if you really want the latest version of git to avoid this problem. https://containers.dev/implementors/reference/#prebuilding

@samruddhikhandale Should we keep this open to track potentially pre-building git ahead of time?

[samruddhikhandale]

With ppa:true It hangs on => => # (*) Downloading GPG key...

ℹ️ This is a separate issue tracked in #323

[samruddhikhandale]

@samruddhikhandale Should we keep this open to track potentially pre-building git ahead of time?

Yep, sounds good 👍

[mataslib]

@Chuxel Thank you kindly for clarification. 👍