From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:42:20 GMT
Subject: Re: clone: I'm only doing a max of 256 requests
Message-ID: <7virwbu4wz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <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/.