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Re: git clone sending unneeded objects (was : git gc expanding packed data?)

From
Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
Date
Sep 25, 2009, 18:05 UTC
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On 08/09/2009 03:43 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
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> Nicolas Pitre<nico@cam.org>  writes:
>
>> If you do a clone using the git:// protocol and the server sends you
>> only the ref for the trunk branch,
>
> A clone will fetch all branches from refs/heads/*.
>
>> then it should send you only objects reachable from that branch.
>
> Apparantly this does not work.  I'd guess the extra objects are needed
> due to the delta compression.

I just tried doing a clone of the GCC repository, then git gc --prune=now, and another clone specifying --reference to the first, and it wanted to download all the unreachable objects again. So it doesn't seem to be a compression issue.

This is with git 1.6.4 on both ends.
Jason
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Message 6 of 26 in “Re: git gc expanding packed data?”
  1. Andreas SchwabAug 8, 2009
  2. Hin-Tak LeungAug 8, 2009
  3. Andreas SchwabAug 8, 2009
  4. Nicolas PitreAug 9, 2009
  5. Andreas SchwabAug 9, 2009
  6. Jason MerrillSep 25, 2009
  7. Matthieu MoySep 25, 2009
  8. Jason MerrillSep 25, 2009
  9. Nicolas PitreSep 25, 2009
  10. Jason MerrillSep 25, 2009
  11. Nicolas PitreSep 25, 2009
  12. Jason MerrillSep 25, 2009
  13. Nicolas PitreSep 26, 2009
  14. make 'git clone' ask the remote only for objects it cares aboutNicolas Pitre, Sep 26, 2009
  15. Andreas SchwabSep 26, 2009
  16. Shawn O. PearceSep 26, 2009
  17. Nicolas PitreSep 27, 2009
  18. Jason MerrillSep 26, 2009
  19. Jason MerrillSep 26, 2009
  20. Nicolas PitreSep 27, 2009
  21. Nicolas PitreSep 27, 2009
  22. Shawn O. PearceSep 27, 2009
  23. Nicolas PitreSep 27, 2009
  24. Jason MerrillSep 27, 2009
  25. Nicolas PitreSep 28, 2009
  26. Hin-Tak LeungSep 26, 2009

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