From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:07:17 GMT
Subject: Re: git-push sent too many objects
Message-ID: <20120426130717.GB27785@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <15053.1334758946@plover.com>

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:22:26AM -0400, Mark Jason Dominus wrote:

> Shawn Pearce:
> > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 09:53, Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com> wrote:
> > > What happened here? =A0Why did git-push send 1,315 objects instead of 5?
> > 
> > Is it possible someone else modified the repository at the same time?
> 
> It is extremely unlikely. This repository is controlled by gitolite
> and I am the only person who has push access to it. Also, although my
> paste doesn't show it, the repository's master reference had not
> moved.

Is the repository public? I can't reproduce the issue on a trivial test
case, but it might be possible to create the original state of the
client and server repos with judicious use of "reset" and "prune".
If we can get a reliable case, then running with GIT_TRACE_PACKET will
show the commit negotiation that we go through.

-Peff