From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 18:37:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Fetching 24 Linux commits = 1.2 GiB
Message-ID: <xmqq4ks3q2s4.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200525182205.7hcffndaro2pgink@wunner.de>

Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> writes:

> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 03:40:19PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>> The "too big fetch" issue has since been fixed in "master", as well as
>> reverting the switch to the v2 protocol (which I think is just
>> belt-and-suspenders; AFAIK there are no known issues after the fix).
>> Both will be in v2.27. I don't see anything on "maint", but they _could_
>> be part of an eventual v2.26.3.
>> 
>> The fix was merged in 0b07eecf6e (Merge branch 'jt/v2-fetch-nego-fix',
>> 2020-05-01) for reference.
>
> Please consider cutting a v2.26.3 release with this fix at your
> earliest convenience.  The waste of bandwidth is mind-boggling.
> (> 1 GByte whenever fetching from a kernel remote.)

In the meantime, v2.27.0 rc2 will be out tomorrow.  Please consider
helping us polish it by testing that version.

Thanks.