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Bug in 2.26: git-fetch fetching too many objects?

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DADixit, Ashutosh <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Date
Apr 20, 2020, 15:44 UTC
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I am seeing a strange behavior in git-fetch in 2.26. I frequently fetch from a couple of linux kernel remotes (so you will have an idea how big the repo is). I have a different system with 2.20 on which I never see a problem.

So let us say I fetch with 2.20 and it fetches say 20,000 objects. However with 2.26 it starts fetching millions of objects, objects which are already present locally. I don't know yet if this happens each time or only once in a while, I have seen it happen twice, will keep an eye out for this.

If you open a bug please let me know and I can update it with my findings. Unless it is a known issue, perhaps already fixed?

Thanks! -- Ashutosh

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