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Re: clone: I'm only doing a max of 256 requests

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Oct 5, 2005, 19:42 UTC
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<7virwbu4wz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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<20051005191300.GC17475@hexapodia.org>
Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> writes:
> ...  (And how should I be starting to
> debug this?  The git programs don't seem to have a useful --verbose
> option.  It would be nice if "git -v clone" would tell me what it is
> doing.)

$ git grep -n 'max of .* requests' upload-pack.c:141: die("I'm only doing a max of %d requests", MAX_NEEDS);

I suspect that the repository you are cloning has too many branch heads and tags under .git/refs/.

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  1. Andy IsaacsonOct 5, 2005
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  4. Junio C HamanoOct 5, 2005
  5. Vincent HanquezOct 5, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsOct 5, 2005
  7. upload-pack: Do not choke on too many heads request.Junio C Hamano, Oct 5, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsOct 5, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoOct 5, 2005
  10. Alex RiesenOct 6, 2005
  11. Linus TorvaldsOct 6, 2005
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