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From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: cloning a namespace downloads all the objects
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:04:41 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMK1S_hdsgXoPcSn__htpGCpmCsAGb9j+m+SvxtO_69eqC92gA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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?

-- 
Sitaram

             reply	other threads:[~2012-11-16 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-16 16:34 Sitaram Chamarty [this message]
2012-11-16 16:43 ` cloning a namespace downloads all the objects Junio C Hamano
2012-11-16 17:34   ` Jeff King

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