From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: cloning a namespace downloads all the objects
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:43:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vvcd57b32.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMK1S_hdsgXoPcSn__htpGCpmCsAGb9j+m+SvxtO_69eqC92gA@mail.gmail.com> (Sitaram Chamarty's message of "Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:04:41 +0530")
Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have a repo on a server, which contains, as namespaces, the contents
> of several different repos of varying sizes. When I run a clone
> command for the smallest of the namespaces (I have a script that
> intercepts the clone and sets GIT_NAMESPACE appropriately), I get the
> correct set of refs, but *all* the objects from *all* the namespaces.
>
> And since no refs from the other namespaces have come down, a 'git gc
> --prune=now', run immediately after, reduces the size of
> ".git/objects" to the size I would expect for just that small
> namespace.
>
> In effect, it is bringing down data that is not reachable and will be
> wiped out on the next gc.
>
> Is this expected?
I do not think so.
This was done with a series between a1bea2c (ref namespaces:
infrastructure, 2011-07-05) and bf7930c (ref namespaces: tests,
2011-07-21); Josh, care to comment on and to look into it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-16 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-16 16:34 cloning a namespace downloads all the objects Sitaram Chamarty
2012-11-16 16:43 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-11-16 17:34 ` Jeff King
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