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From: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>,
	Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git clone sending unneeded objects (was : git gc expanding packed data?)
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:05:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ABD0669.7050309@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2k51dzb39.fsf@linux-m68k.org>

On 08/09/2009 03:43 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Nicolas Pitre<nico@cam.org>  writes:
>
>> If you do a clone using the git:// protocol and the server sends you
>> only the ref for the trunk branch,
>
> A clone will fetch all branches from refs/heads/*.
>
>> then it should send you only objects reachable from that branch.
>
> Apparantly this does not work.  I'd guess the extra objects are needed
> due to the delta compression.

I just tried doing a clone of the GCC repository, then git gc 
--prune=now, and another clone specifying --reference to the first, and 
it wanted to download all the unreachable objects again.  So it doesn't 
seem to be a compression issue.

This is with git 1.6.4 on both ends.

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-25 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-08  1:11 git gc expanding packed data? Andreas Schwab
2009-08-08 13:05 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-08-08 13:25   ` Andreas Schwab
2009-08-09  2:56 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-08-09  7:43   ` Andreas Schwab
2009-09-25 18:05     ` Jason Merrill [this message]
2009-09-25 19:34       ` git clone sending unneeded objects Matthieu Moy
2009-09-25 19:43         ` Jason Merrill
2009-09-25 19:53         ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-09-25 20:20           ` Jason Merrill
2009-09-25 20:47             ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-09-25 23:17               ` Jason Merrill
2009-09-26  0:49                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-09-26  3:54                   ` [PATCH] make 'git clone' ask the remote only for objects it cares about Nicolas Pitre
2009-09-26  7:21                     ` Andreas Schwab
2009-09-26 19:50                     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-09-27  0:26                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-09-26  4:44                 ` git clone sending unneeded objects Jason Merrill
2009-09-26 13:33                   ` Jason Merrill
2009-09-27  2:26                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-09-27  1:27                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-09-27  2:04                     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-09-27  2:31                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-09-27  4:35                       ` Jason Merrill
2009-09-28  4:18                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-09-26  0:43             ` Hin-Tak Leung

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