From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 01:52:35 GMT Subject: Re: http protocol, cloning git.git, fails (too many open files) Message-ID: <7v64qw807w.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20051114010940.GQ30496@pasky.or.cz> Petr Baudis writes: > Dear diary, on Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 01:42:33AM CET, I got a letter > where wa1ter@myrealbox.com said that... >> >> So, what does cogito do differently that accounts for more open files? > > Cogito uses the same logic and underlying GIT fetching commands for > cloning as well as for fetching,... Ah, you are absolutely right. I've forgotten about that "dumb http support" in git-clone.sh. That was done back when packs were introduced but http-fetch was not told about them as a stop-gap measure. No wonder we do not see the same problem from git-clone. Thanks for reminding me.