Clone is freezing when cloning from one local repo to another

[sirnewton01]

Run dgit clone <path/to/some/local/repo> <path/to/new/repo and it will freeze without doing anything until you kill the process.

Underneath, the clone command is launching a git-upload-pack command (not provided by dgit, usually part of an existing git install) and using a pipe (I think) to fetch the packs from the other repo. Something is stalling in that communication and causing the entire process to freeze.

[sirnewton01]

It is a bit of a shame that there's a specialized tool "git-upload-pack" and IPC necessary to basically copy some files from one place to another. If dgit is eventually become a complete replacement for git it will need to be able to either have its own git-upload-pack implementation or come up with an acceptable short-cut.

[driusan]

Can you test if this is still the case with #221? I'm able to run a clone from a local repo to another on DragonFly.

[sirnewton01]

This is a dup of #215