threads / discuss / 10172

git fetch -- double fetch

Subject: git fetch -- double fetch

## tl;dr

5 messages between Oct 6, 2007 and Oct 7, 2007.

replies: 4people: 3as markdown or json

Andy Whitcroft· Oct 6, 2007, 18:57 UTC · lore

I have recently been seeing repeated fetching of some branches. I feel this has happened in at least three of my repos on three distinct projects:

apw@pinky$ git fetch origin
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 5 objects.
remote: Deltifying 5 objects...
remote:  100% (5/5) done
Unpacking 5 objects...
remote: Total 5 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
 100% (5/5) done
* refs/remotes/origin/master: fast forward to branch 'master' of ssh://git@abat-dev/var/www/git/abat
  old..new: ce046f0..41c9dde
* refs/remotes/origin/master: fast forward to branch 'master' of ssh://git@abat-dev/var/www/git/abat
  old..new: ce046f0..41c9dde
error: Ref refs/remotes/origin/master is at 41c9dde2e63f35cd7c64b0a52c3650f246999ffd but expected ce046f04172a2a216092936302ab2cb4da64b69e
apw@pinky$

This is with a 'next' a couple of days old:

apw@pinky$ git --version git version 1.5.3.3.1145.g46930-dirty apw@pinky$

Will be upgrading to the latest next, will let you know if I see it again.

-apw

Johannes Schindelin· Oct 7, 2007, 16:29 UTC · re: Andy Whitcroft · lore

Re: git fetch -- double fetch

Hi,

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote:

Show 16 quoted lines

> I have recently been seeing repeated fetching of some branches.  I feel
> this has happened in at least three of my repos on three distinct
> projects:
> 
> apw@pinky$ git fetch origin
> remote: Generating pack...
> remote: Done counting 5 objects.
> remote: Deltifying 5 objects...
> remote:  100% (5/5) done
> Unpacking 5 objects...
> remote: Total 5 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
>  100% (5/5) done
> * refs/remotes/origin/master: fast forward to branch 'master' of ssh://git@abat-dev/var/www/git/abat
>   old..new: ce046f0..41c9dde
> * refs/remotes/origin/master: fast forward to branch 'master' of ssh://git@abat-dev/var/www/git/abat
>   old..new: ce046f0..41c9dde

What does "git config --get-all remote.origin.fetch" say?

Ciao, Dscho

Andy Whitcroft· Oct 7, 2007, 21:44 UTC · re: Johannes Schindelin · lore

Re: git fetch -- double fetch

On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 05:29:38PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Show 22 quoted lines

> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> 
> > I have recently been seeing repeated fetching of some branches.  I feel
> > this has happened in at least three of my repos on three distinct
> > projects:
> > 
> > apw@pinky$ git fetch origin
> > remote: Generating pack...
> > remote: Done counting 5 objects.
> > remote: Deltifying 5 objects...
> > remote:  100% (5/5) done
> > Unpacking 5 objects...
> > remote: Total 5 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
> >  100% (5/5) done
> > * refs/remotes/origin/master: fast forward to branch 'master' of ssh://git@abat-dev/var/www/git/abat
> >   old..new: ce046f0..41c9dde
> > * refs/remotes/origin/master: fast forward to branch 'master' of ssh://git@abat-dev/var/www/git/abat
> >   old..new: ce046f0..41c9dde
> 
> What does "git config --get-all remote.origin.fetch" say?

apw@pinky$ git config --get-all remote.origin.fetch +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* apw@pinky$

I don't think that I did anything to this config, I think that is what the clone setup for me.

-apw

Daniel Barkalow· Oct 7, 2007, 23:14 UTC · re: Andy Whitcroft · lore

Re: git fetch -- double fetch

On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote:

Show 31 quoted lines

> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 05:29:38PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > 
> > > I have recently been seeing repeated fetching of some branches.  I feel
> > > this has happened in at least three of my repos on three distinct
> > > projects:
> > > 
> > > apw@pinky$ git fetch origin
> > > remote: Generating pack...
> > > remote: Done counting 5 objects.
> > > remote: Deltifying 5 objects...
> > > remote:  100% (5/5) done
> > > Unpacking 5 objects...
> > > remote: Total 5 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
> > >  100% (5/5) done
> > > * refs/remotes/origin/master: fast forward to branch 'master' of ssh://git@abat-dev/var/www/git/abat
> > >   old..new: ce046f0..41c9dde
> > > * refs/remotes/origin/master: fast forward to branch 'master' of ssh://git@abat-dev/var/www/git/abat
> > >   old..new: ce046f0..41c9dde
> > 
> > What does "git config --get-all remote.origin.fetch" say?
> 
> apw@pinky$ git config --get-all remote.origin.fetch
> +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
> +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
> apw@pinky$
> 
> I don't think that I did anything to this config, I think that is what
> the clone setup for me.

Ah, both the first line and the pattern match, and there's nothing at that stage to filter out duplicates.

	-Daniel
*This .sig left intentionally blank*

Johannes Schindelin· Oct 7, 2007, 23:25 UTC · re: Andy Whitcroft · lore

Re: git fetch -- double fetch

Hi,

On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote:

Show 30 quoted lines

> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 05:29:38PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > 
> > > I have recently been seeing repeated fetching of some branches.  I 
> > > feel this has happened in at least three of my repos on three 
> > > distinct projects:
> > > 
> > > apw@pinky$ git fetch origin
> > > remote: Generating pack...
> > > remote: Done counting 5 objects.
> > > remote: Deltifying 5 objects...
> > > remote:  100% (5/5) done
> > > Unpacking 5 objects...
> > > remote: Total 5 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
> > >  100% (5/5) done
> > > * refs/remotes/origin/master: fast forward to branch 'master' of ssh://git@abat-dev/var/www/git/abat
> > >   old..new: ce046f0..41c9dde
> > > * refs/remotes/origin/master: fast forward to branch 'master' of ssh://git@abat-dev/var/www/git/abat
> > >   old..new: ce046f0..41c9dde
> > 
> > What does "git config --get-all remote.origin.fetch" say?
> 
> apw@pinky$ git config --get-all remote.origin.fetch
> +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
> +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
> apw@pinky$
> 
> I don't think that I did anything to this config, I think that is what 
> the clone setup for me.

Actually, I am quite certain that git clone does not produce the first line; But I think that it was necessary to put in some line like that in older git, where the first ref was the one being merged by a pull.

But as I suspected, and Daniel replied, too, your issue is that both lines match "master".

You might want to delete the first line, and use "branch.<name>.remote" and "branch.<name>.merge" to force pull to merge "master" instead.

In the long run, it might be a good idea to cull duplicates in git-fetch, but for the moment I have enough other stuff to do ;-)

Ciao, Dscho