Cloning large repo never finishes

Description

Clone appears part of the way, but the UI never finishes. It says it is “Cloning repository…” over night. This is only happening on a large repo (1.4GB) and is not happening for smaller repos

Reproduce

• Click the clone repo button
• enter url and auth for large repo (1GB)
• Cloning happens without errors, and if you observe the files I can see the files getting created, and the repo is the expected size, but the UI/extension never moves out of the “Cloning repository” status.

Expected behavior

Cloning to finish and allow me to perform git operations on it.

Context

• Python package version: Version: 0.30.1
• Extension version:

JupyterLab v3.0.16
/opt/conda/share/jupyter/labextensions
        jupyter-matplotlib v0.9.0 enabled OK
        nbdime-jupyterlab v2.1.0 enabled OK
        @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager v3.0.0 enabled OK (python, jupyterlab_widgets)
        @jupyterlab/git v0.30.1 enabled OK (python, jupyterlab-git)

• Git version: git version 2.31.1
• Operating System and its version: This is running as a docker container from the base image: jupyter/datascience-notebook

Command Line Output

Executing the command: jupyter lab
/opt/conda/lib/python3.9/site-packages/jupyter_server/transutils.py:13: FutureWarning: The alias `_()` will be deprecated. Use `_i18n()` instead.
  warnings.warn(warn_msg, FutureWarning)
[I 2021-05-25 22:14:49.051 ServerApp] jupyter_server_mathjax | extension was successfully linked.
[I 2021-05-25 22:14:49.065 ServerApp] jupyterlab | extension was successfully linked.
[I 2021-05-25 22:14:49.065 ServerApp] jupyterlab_git | extension was successfully linked.
[W 2021-05-25 22:14:49.069 NotebookApp] 'ip' has moved from NotebookApp to ServerApp. This config will be passed to ServerApp. Be sure to update your config before our next release.  
[W 2021-05-25 22:14:49.069 NotebookApp] 'port' has moved from NotebookApp to ServerApp. This config will be passed to ServerApp. Be sure to update your config before our next release.
[W 2021-05-25 22:14:49.069 NotebookApp] 'port' has moved from NotebookApp to ServerApp. This config will be passed to ServerApp. Be sure to update your config before our next release.
[I 2021-05-25 22:14:49.078 ServerApp] Writing notebook server cookie secret to /home/jovyan/.local/share/jupyter/runtime/jupyter_cookie_secret
[I 2021-05-25 22:14:49.315 ServerApp] nbclassic | extension was successfully linked.
[I 2021-05-25 22:14:49.315 ServerApp] nbdime | extension was successfully linked.
[I 2021-05-25 22:14:49.340 ServerApp] nbclassic | extension was successfully loaded.
[I 2021-05-25 22:14:49.341 ServerApp] jupyter_server_mathjax | extension was successfully loaded.
[I 2021-05-25 22:14:49.342 LabApp] JupyterLab extension loaded from /opt/conda/lib/python3.9/site-packages/jupyterlab
[I 2021-05-25 22:14:49.342 LabApp] JupyterLab application directory is /opt/conda/share/jupyter/lab
[I 2021-05-25 22:14:49.345 ServerApp] jupyterlab | extension was successfully loaded.
[I 2021-05-25 22:14:49.348 ServerApp] jupyterlab_git | extension was successfully loaded.
[I 2021-05-25 22:14:49.423 ServerApp] nbdime | extension was successfully loaded.
[I 2021-05-25 22:14:49.426 ServerApp] Serving notebooks from local directory: /home/jovyan
[I 2021-05-25 22:14:49.426 ServerApp] Jupyter Server 1.8.0 is running at:
[I 2021-05-25 22:14:49.426 ServerApp] http://020c042a1ccd:8888/lab?token=...
[I 2021-05-25 22:14:49.426 ServerApp]     http://127.0.0.1:8888/lab?token=...
[I 2021-05-25 22:14:49.426 ServerApp] Use Control-C to stop this server and shut down all kernels (twice to skip confirmation).
[I 2021-05-25 22:20:04.054 ServerApp] 302 GET / (172.17.0.1) 1.02ms
[W 2021-05-25 22:20:04.073 ServerApp] Clearing invalid/expired login cookie username-localhost-8888
[W 2021-05-25 22:20:04.073 LabApp] Clearing invalid/expired login cookie username-localhost-8888
[I 2021-05-25 22:20:04.074 LabApp] 302 GET /lab? (172.17.0.1) 2.51ms
[I 2021-05-25 22:20:08.835 ServerApp] 302 POST /login?next=%2Flab%3F (172.17.0.1) 0.98ms
[I 2021-05-25 22:20:12.174 LabApp] Build is up to date
[E 2021-05-25 22:20:42.977 ServerApp] {
      "Host": "localhost:8888",
      "Connection": "keep-alive",
      "Content-Length": "138",
      "Sec-Ch-Ua": "\" Not A;Brand\";v=\"99\", \"Chromium\";v=\"90\", \"Microsoft Edge\";v=\"90\"",
      "Authorization": "token password",
      "X-Xsrftoken": "2|6f9104cc|dba8ca3e7a173e12b695365f1e8ea722|1621968277",
      "Sec-Ch-Ua-Mobile": "?0",
      "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.212 Safari/537.36 Edg/90.0.818.66",
      "Content-Type": "text/plain;charset=UTF-8",
      "Accept": "*/*",
      "Origin": "http://localhost:8888",
      "Sec-Fetch-Site": "same-origin",
      "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "cors",
      "Sec-Fetch-Dest": "empty",
      "Referer": "http://localhost:8888/lab/workspaces/auto-e",
      "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
      "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
      "Cookie": "_xsrf=2|6f9104cc|dba8ca3e7a173e12b695365f1e8ea722|1621968277; username-localhost-8889=\"2|1:0|10:1621980254|23:username-localhost-8889|44:Mzk1NWMyMWYzNjNmNDY5Njg3YTQwMzQ4YzhkMDkwNzc=|1add14bb562585e1f15a230a2961ac4626219af371de6d7db290fde9abd8f296\"; username-localhost-8888=\"2|1:0|10:1621981241|23:username-localhost-8888|44:MDBkY2U4YjNkZjFlNDBiNDk2YzBkNGZjNDUxMmM5ZTE=|6c6782ac09827374ec86d196f79a24aff58cc3d5b47042e7bc15654c8a6df059\""
    }
[E 2021-05-25 22:20:42.977 ServerApp] 500 POST /git/clone?1621981241646 (172.17.0.1) 1018.72ms referer=http://localhost:8888/lab/workspaces/auto-e
[E 2021-05-25 22:20:51.969 ServerApp] {
      "Host": "localhost:8888",
      "Connection": "keep-alive",
      "Content-Length": "235",
      "Sec-Ch-Ua": "\" Not A;Brand\";v=\"99\", \"Chromium\";v=\"90\", \"Microsoft Edge\";v=\"90\"",
      "Authorization": "token password",
      "X-Xsrftoken": "2|6f9104cc|dba8ca3e7a173e12b695365f1e8ea722|1621968277",
      "Sec-Ch-Ua-Mobile": "?0",
      "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.212 Safari/537.36 Edg/90.0.818.66",
      "Content-Type": "text/plain;charset=UTF-8",
      "Accept": "*/*",
      "Origin": "http://localhost:8888",
      "Sec-Fetch-Site": "same-origin",
      "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "cors",
      "Sec-Fetch-Dest": "empty",
      "Referer": "http://localhost:8888/lab/workspaces/auto-e",
      "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
      "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
      "Cookie": "_xsrf=2|6f9104cc|dba8ca3e7a173e12b695365f1e8ea722|1621968277; username-localhost-8889=\"2|1:0|10:1621980254|23:username-localhost-8889|44:Mzk1NWMyMWYzNjNmNDY5Njg3YTQwMzQ4YzhkMDkwNzc=|1add14bb562585e1f15a230a2961ac4626219af371de6d7db290fde9abd8f296\"; username-localhost-8888=\"2|1:0|10:1621981241|23:username-localhost-8888|44:MDE3ZDNjMTQyZTQ5NGY0ZWE2YmIzNzdlN2UxNWQ2Yjg=|8e8a227540dd187e38a4075ffc15a3efc12c786020141a2dd91135837d881e65\""
    }
[E 2021-05-25 22:20:51.969 ServerApp] 500 POST /git/clone?1621981249628 (172.17.0.1) 2028.99ms referer=http://localhost:8888/lab/workspaces/auto-e
[E 2021-05-25 22:21:04.844 ServerApp] {
      "Host": "localhost:8888",
      "Connection": "keep-alive",
      "Content-Length": "138",
      "Sec-Ch-Ua": "\" Not A;Brand\";v=\"99\", \"Chromium\";v=\"90\", \"Microsoft Edge\";v=\"90\"",
      "Authorization": "token password",
      "X-Xsrftoken": "2|6f9104cc|dba8ca3e7a173e12b695365f1e8ea722|1621968277",
      "Sec-Ch-Ua-Mobile": "?0",
      "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.212 Safari/537.36 Edg/90.0.818.66",
      "Content-Type": "text/plain;charset=UTF-8",
      "Accept": "*/*",
      "Origin": "http://localhost:8888",
      "Sec-Fetch-Site": "same-origin",
      "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "cors",
      "Sec-Fetch-Dest": "empty",
      "Referer": "http://localhost:8888/lab/workspaces/auto-e",
      "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
      "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
      "Cookie": "_xsrf=2|6f9104cc|dba8ca3e7a173e12b695365f1e8ea722|1621968277; username-localhost-8889=\"2|1:0|10:1621980254|23:username-localhost-8889|44:Mzk1NWMyMWYzNjNmNDY5Njg3YTQwMzQ4YzhkMDkwNzc=|1add14bb562585e1f15a230a2961ac4626219af371de6d7db290fde9abd8f296\"; username-localhost-8888=\"2|1:0|10:1621981262|23:username-localhost-8888|44:MzExZjE0MzIwODI5NGFkZDg3Y2RmNWY0YTBiMzQxM2E=|8294bb88029ed9f126584f26726e89a9ca997c71439258477088f4349d43042b\""
    }
[E 2021-05-25 22:21:04.844 ServerApp] 500 POST /git/clone?1621981263467 (172.17.0.1) 1065.01ms referer=http://localhost:8888/lab/workspaces/auto-e
[E 2021-05-26 15:37:47.519 ServerApp] {
      "Host": "localhost:8888",
      "Connection": "keep-alive",
      "Content-Length": "27",
      "Sec-Ch-Ua": "\" Not A;Brand\";v=\"99\", \"Chromium\";v=\"90\", \"Microsoft Edge\";v=\"90\"",
      "Authorization": "token password",
      "X-Xsrftoken": "2|6f9104cc|dba8ca3e7a173e12b695365f1e8ea722|1621968277",
      "Sec-Ch-Ua-Mobile": "?0",
      "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.212 Safari/537.36 Edg/90.0.818.66",
      "Content-Type": "text/plain;charset=UTF-8",
      "Accept": "*/*",
      "Origin": "http://localhost:8888",
      "Sec-Fetch-Site": "same-origin",
      "Sec-Fetch-Mode": "cors",
      "Sec-Fetch-Dest": "empty",
      "Referer": "http://localhost:8888/lab/workspaces/auto-e",
      "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
      "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
      "Cookie": "_xsrf=2|6f9104cc|dba8ca3e7a173e12b695365f1e8ea722|1621968277; username-localhost-8889=\"2|1:0|10:1621980254|23:username-localhost-8889|44:Mzk1NWMyMWYzNjNmNDY5Njg3YTQwMzQ4YzhkMDkwNzc=|1add14bb562585e1f15a230a2961ac4626219af371de6d7db290fde9abd8f296\"; username-localhost-8888=\"2|1:0|10:1622043447|23:username-localhost-8888|44:MmQ0NzkwY2E5MTVjNDcwOGFmYWIyNjIyMDc1NzA2OWE=|e9b29028fb2ae4dbbcf699d22870373b100eec6ca0b14a43799cd5bd84dead18\""
    }
[E 2021-05-26 15:37:47.532 ServerApp] 500 POST /git/show_top_level?1622043447335 (172.17.0.1) 20009.47ms referer=http://localhost:8888/lab/workspaces/auto-e

Web Browser Output

[DOM] Password field is not contained in a form: (More info: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/create-amazing-password-forms) ​
:8888/git/show_top_level?1622043447335:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error)
664.1e7f16b3afb000957a27.js?v=1e7f16b3afb000957a27:1 Fail to find Git top level for path Caboodle.
Error: Unable to get the lock on the directory

[fcollonval]

Thanks @brandonmcclure

There gonna be some work on dealing with credentials this summer. So let’s keep this case open. It could justify setting the cache credential helper if none is provided.

[brandonmcclure]

Running clone from terminal hangs after some time. If I hit enter then I get prompted to enter my password again.

I set git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=2400' in my docker image and running from the command line and from the UI it works as expected. Not sure how the extension could detect/alert the user to this since it is related to how the host/git credential manager is configured. I am happy to help troubleshoot this further if you would like to pursue more, or we can close.