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cloning a namespace downloads all the objects

From
Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 16, 2012, 16:34 UTC
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Hi,

I have a repo on a server, which contains, as namespaces, the contents of several different repos of varying sizes. When I run a clone command for the smallest of the namespaces (I have a script that intercepts the clone and sets GIT_NAMESPACE appropriately), I get the correct set of refs, but *all* the objects from *all* the namespaces.

And since no refs from the other namespaces have come down, a 'git gc --prune=now', run immediately after, reduces the size of ".git/objects" to the size I would expect for just that small namespace.

In effect, it is bringing down data that is not reachable and will be wiped out on the next gc.

Is this expected?
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Sitaram
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