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Re: Bug in 2.26: git-fetch fetching too many objects?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 21, 2020, 19:16 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
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> (+cc: Jonathan Tan, fetch negotiation expert)
> Hi,
>
> Dixit, Ashutosh wrote:
>
>> I am seeing a strange behavior in git-fetch in 2.26. I frequently fetch
>> from a couple of linux kernel remotes (so you will have an idea how big the
>> repo is). I have a different system with 2.20 on which I never see a
>> problem.
> ...
> I suspect this is related to the change that protocol v2 does to use
> stateless-rpc even in stateful protocols.  If my suspicion is correct,
> then the same behavior would show up with protocol v0 over http and
> https as well.
Thanks.

This is at least the fourth time we hear that v2 may not be ready for the real-world use. Perhaps we should revert the default flip on the maintenance track while we hunt for bugs and improve the protocol support?

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Message 5 of 8 in “Bug in 2.26: git-fetch fetching too many objects?”
  1. Dixit, AshutoshApr 20, 2020
  2. Konstantin RyabitsevApr 20, 2020
  3. Dixit, AshutoshApr 21, 2020
  4. Jonathan NiederApr 21, 2020
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 21, 2020
  6. Jonathan NiederApr 21, 2020
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 21, 2020
  8. Jeff KingApr 21, 2020

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