From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:10:53 GMT
Subject: Breakage in master since 6d4bb3833c
Message-ID: <4EA1614D.3090202@alum.mit.edu>

When testing reference-handling performance using my refperf script [1],
I noticed that there is a problem in master that I bisected down to

6d4bb3833c "fetch: verify we have everything we need before updating our
ref"

When I run the following commands

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GIT=$(pwd)/git
ORIG=bug-6d4bb383-repo
REPO=bug-6d4bb383-clone
URL=file://$(pwd)/$ORIG

$GIT init $ORIG
cd $ORIG
$GIT config gc.auto 0
$GIT config gc.packrefs false
touch a.txt
$GIT add a.txt
$GIT commit -am 'Add file'
cd ..

mkdir $REPO
cd $REPO
$GIT init
$GIT remote add origin $URL
$GIT fetch origin
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Then the last "git fetch origin" command gives the following output:

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remote: Counting objects: 3, done.
remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.
usage: git rev-list [OPTION] <commit-id>... [ -- paths... ]
  limiting output:
    --max-count=<n>
    --max-age=<epoch>
    --min-age=<epoch>
    --sparse
    --no-merges
    --min-parents=<n>
    --no-min-parents
    --max-parents=<n>
    --no-max-parents
    --remove-empty
    --all
    --branches
    --tags
    --remotes
    --stdin
    --quiet
  ordering output:
    --topo-order
    --date-order
    --reverse
  formatting output:
    --parents
    --children
    --objects | --objects-edge
    --unpacked
    --header | --pretty
    --abbrev=<n> | --no-abbrev
    --abbrev-commit
    --left-right
  special purpose:
    --bisect
    --bisect-vars
    --bisect-all
error: file:///home/mhagger/self/proj/git/git/bug-6d4bb383-repo did not
send all necessary objects

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The same error occurs if all of the steps *except* the last one are done
with a release version of git.

Michael

[1] branch "refperf" at git://github.com/mhagger/git.git

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Michael Haggerty
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