From: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 18:22:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Fetching 24 Linux commits = 1.2 GiB
Message-ID: <20200525182205.7hcffndaro2pgink@wunner.de>
In-Reply-To: <20200520194019.GA340985@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 03:40:19PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> The "too big fetch" issue has since been fixed in "master", as well as
> reverting the switch to the v2 protocol (which I think is just
> belt-and-suspenders; AFAIK there are no known issues after the fix).
> Both will be in v2.27. I don't see anything on "maint", but they _could_
> be part of an eventual v2.26.3.
> 
> The fix was merged in 0b07eecf6e (Merge branch 'jt/v2-fetch-nego-fix',
> 2020-05-01) for reference.

Please consider cutting a v2.26.3 release with this fix at your
earliest convenience.  The waste of bandwidth is mind-boggling.
(> 1 GByte whenever fetching from a kernel remote.)

Thanks,

Lukas