From: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:35:30 GMT
Subject: Re: git clone sending unneeded objects
Message-ID: <4ABEEB92.1020307@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090927020409.GK14660@spearce.org>

On 09/26/2009 10:04 PM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> Actually, if those refs have not changed, quickfetch should kick in
> and realize that all 410610 objects are reachable locally without
> errors, permitting the client to avoid the object transfer.
>
> However, if *ANY* of those refs were to change to something you
> don't actually have, quickfetch would fail, and we would need to
> fetch all 410610 objects.

Right.  That seems unfortunate to me; couldn't fetch do a bit more 
checking before it decides to download the whole world again?

Jason