From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 18:47:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Fetching commit instead of ref
Message-ID: <xmqqlghusiq7.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1513756114533.56362@arris.com>

"Carlsson, Magnus" <Magnus.Carlsson@arris.com> writes:

> $ git fetch subrepo 50f730db793e0733b159326c5a3e78fd48cedfec:refs/remote/subrepo/foo-commit
> remote: Counting objects: 2311, done.
> remote: Total 2311 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 2311
> -- >>> Receiving objects: 100% (2311/2311), 703.64 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (1174/1174), done.
> error: Server does not allow request for unadvertised object 50f730db793e0733b159326c5a3e78fd48cedfec

Unless that "fetch" is doing a recursive fetch from another
repository (which causes the counting to be shown) or something
silly, the above makes it look like that the server is broken.

A quick test locally does not seem to show such a behaviour, but I
do not enable pack bitmaps and I know github does at least for some
repositories, so it is possible there is a problem somewhere in that
codepath.