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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> Dear diary, on Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 01:42:33AM CET, I got a letter
> where wa1ter@myrealbox.com said that...
>> 
>> So, what does cogito do differently that accounts for more open files?
>
> Cogito uses the same logic and underlying GIT fetching commands for
> cloning as well as for fetching,...

Ah, you are absolutely right.  I've forgotten about that "dumb
http support" in git-clone.sh.  That was done back when packs
were introduced but http-fetch was not told about them as a
stop-gap measure.

No wonder we do not see the same problem from git-clone.  Thanks
for reminding me.