From: Jon Nelson Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:49:34 GMT Subject: Re: cannot handle more than 29 refs Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Jon Nelson wrote: > > > > I get this message whenever I use --tags with git-pull with certain > > repositories. > > You shouldn't "pull" tags. You should just "fetch" them. > > The error message comes from the fact that the pull is a "fetch + merge", > and the merge logic tries to figure out what the common parent is with > "git-show-branch". And the common parent finding is limited to 29 commits. > > (Which is a very reasonable limit: the normal case is 2, and doing an > octopus-merge with more than four or five parents is already insane. Much > less 30 parents). ^^^ Aha! I think I understand what's going on here - and you are right, I *don't* want to merge from all of those tags, I just want the content, so fetch is what I should be doing. Thanks! -- Jon Nelson