Re: git doing large refetches

From: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>
Date: Jun 25, 2020, 17:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20200625175416.xnrx6dpgdg4rqvx4@yadavpratyush.com>
In-Reply-To: <1731755010.6694064.1593107165458@mail.yahoo.com>

Hi,

On 25/06/20 05:46PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> Lately I noticed that git occasionally do very large re-fetches, despite the difference between local and remote being not large. For example, here are two aborted fetches (see how small the emumerating / counting /compressing are, compared to the receiving object number):
> 
> $ git fetch torvalds
> remote: Enumerating objects: 19374, done.
> remote: Counting objects: 100% (19374/19374), done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4016/4016), done.
> ^Cceiving objects:   2% (161673/7478285), 80.54 MiB | 2.78 MiB/s
> 
> $ git fetch sound
> remote: Enumerating objects: 52009, done.
> remote: Counting objects: 100% (52009/52009), done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5480/5480), done.
> ^Cceiving objects:   1% (74819/7481898), 37.92 MiB | 1.98 MiB/s
> 
> I don't see any real pattern, as the last few times I fetch from either of those two are also quite small ( a few days ago).
> 
> $ git --version
> git version 2.26.2

See https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200422155047.GB91734@google.com/

This problem shouldn't be present in v2.27.*

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav