From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:45:15 GMT Subject: Re: clone: I'm only doing a max of 256 requests Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20051005191300.GC17475@hexapodia.org> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Andy Isaacson wrote: > > 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