Re: git-push of new, tiny branch doing more work than necessary?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 21, 2006, 22:34 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609220031570.19042@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <87fyekkg5r.wl%cworth@cworth.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Carl Worth wrote:

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> I've run through something quite like the following scenario a few
> times lately:
> 
> 	git pull origin
> 	git checkout -b experiment
> 	# hack a file or two
> 	git commit -a -m "new experiment"
> 	git push origin experiment
> 
> What I expect at this point is for git to push the few newly created
> objects out to the repository. Instead it talks about generating,
> deltifying, transferring, and unpacking thousands of objects (see
> below).

I experienced something like this, too, but did not have the time to debug it. But alas, some time (I think last week) it started working as expected again.

> git version 1.4.2.rc2.gef1d9

Please try a more recent version (yours is from Jul 27).

Ciao, Dscho