From: Stephen C. Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:30:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-pack: do not give up when remote has insanely large number of refs.
Message-ID: <1140633034.3385.5.camel@orbit.scot.redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wxvsovj.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 01:51 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> +	for (ref = refs, j = i + 16;
> +	     i < 900 && i < j && ref;

Looks like it's now sending just 16 additional negative refs instead of
940 for this repo.  Definitely an improvement --- push (both full and
with an explicit refspec) is now working properly, thanks!  

Adding more ^refs up to the limit of 900 should be possible, too, and
should catch more already-present objects --- while the refs count for
this repo was under 900, push still worked fine for me, so we don't
necessarily have to cut it hard to as low a number as 16.

Perhaps ultimately we may want to simply send the refs list to
git-rev-list via a pipe or similar if we want this to scale?  We'll need
this for edge cases such as sending >900 new tags to an old repository
at once, as we'll exhaust the size of the positive refs list in that
case.

Thanks again,
 Stephen