Re: Argument list too long when fetching many missing objects from partial clone

From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 2, 2021, 06:55 UTC
Message-ID: <f185e87e-d8d2-3ac4-9ca1-7b96ffb30562@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGyf7-GJQU1s4H-pgVMEc_WB3C4ehppLieT2oiyxa5B8=yyjxA@mail.gmail.com>

After trying your suggestion, I now get:

error: RPC failed; HTTP 413 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 413 fatal: unable to write request to remote: Broken pipe

On 02/03/21 02.22, Bryan Turner wrote:

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> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 5:20 AM Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for filling out a Git bug report!
>> Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.
>>
>> What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
>>
>> I'm poking around with partial clone. On my local server on my computer
>> I have full clone of Git (git.git) repo.
>>
>> I do partial clone from that server as remote (which is actually on the same
>> computer):
>>
>>      git clone https://my-local-server.git/myself/git.git --filter=blob:none
>>
>> Inside the partial clone, I tried to convert it to full clone. First, I gather
>> list of missing objects:
>>
>>      git rev-list --objects --all --missing=print | grep -oP '^\?\K\w+' > .git/missing.list
>>
>> Then I fetched those:
>>
>>      git fetch origin $(cat .git/missing.list)
> 
> Since you're on Git 2.30, instead of trying to place all the object
> IDs on the `git fetch` command line, have you tried adding `--stdin`
> and having it read from your `missing.list` directly? Something like
> `git fetch --stdin origin <.git/missing.list` might do what you need.
> 
>>
>> What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
>>
>> All missing objects fetched successfully
>>
>> What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
>>
>> Git returned:
>>
>>       -bash: /opt/git/bin/git: Argument list too long
>>
>> What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?
>>
>> (nothing)
>>
>> Anything else you want to add:
>>
>> I think the problem lies on how to feed list of 110K+ objects to `git fetch`.
>>
>> Note: Both the local server and the computer use Git 2.30.1
>>
>> Please review the rest of the bug report below.
>> You can delete any lines you don't wish to share.
>>
>> [System Info]
>> git version:
>> git version 2.30.1
>> cpu: x86_64
>> built from commit: 773e25afc41b1b6533fa9ae2cd825d0b4a697fad
>> sizeof-long: 8
>> sizeof-size_t: 8
>> shell-path: /bin/sh
>> uname: Linux 5.10.11-kernelorg-upstream-generic #1 SMP Fri Jan 29 12:56:19 WIB 2021 x86_64
>> compiler info: gnuc: 9.3
>> libc info: glibc: 2.31
>> $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/bash
>>
>> [Enabled Hooks]
>> (none)
>>
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