knife spork very slow on latest chef

[fawaf]

% chef -v                      
Chef Workstation version: 0.17.5
Chef Infra Client version: 15.8.23
Chef InSpec version: 4.18.100
Chef CLI version: 2.0.0
Test Kitchen version: 2.4.0
Cookstyle version: 5.22.6

the command run was similar to promote-cookbook env cookbook -VVVVVV
the output is mostly just https://gist.github.com/fawaf/c2c02601b0804e6cc84a2fa7e0dabced repeated for each env file. of note, the line DEBUG: No chefignore file found. No files will be ignored! is repeated 100s of times for each environment.

happy to provide whatever output is needed, but not sure what else i can provide.

[fawaf]

after more testing, it looks like it is very slow if it tries to look up the version from the server. if i pass in a specific version on the cli, it is still super speedy.

e.g.
super slow

knife spork promote blah foo

vs.
still super speedy

knife spork promote blah foo -v 3.2.1