Re: clone: I'm only doing a max of 256 requests

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Oct 5, 2005, 22:45 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510051541300.31407@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051005191300.GC17475@hexapodia.org>

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Andy Isaacson wrote:

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> Trying to do a local clone of the linux-mips.org git repo:
> 
> % git clone /home/adi/linux/git/lmo/linux foo
> defaulting to local storage area
> fatal: I'm only doing a max of 256 requests

The pack upload has a totally arbitrary limit of 256 heads.

> I got git/lmo/linux from http://www.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/linux.git.

Heh. And:

	git ls-remote http://www.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/linux.git | wc -l

returns "295". Seems to have all the old bk history in it.

> Am I doing something wrong, or what?

No, just change the "MAX_NEEDS" define from 256 to some larger value.

There's no real reason for the limit, except that maybe we should have some dynamic allocation for this.

		Linus