From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Incremental 'git fetch' downloaded everything again
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 00:32:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ak1+dsNQIV8EeSIc@szeder.dev> (raw)
I usually try to fetch from https://github.com/git/git daily, and
today morning something unusual happened:
$ git fetch
remote: Enumerating objects: 406099, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1229/1229), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1044/1044), done.
remote: Total 406093 (delta 207), reused 1189 (delta 185), pack-reused 404864 (from 2)
Receiving objects: 100% (406093/406093), 292.22 MiB | 4.62 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (308943/308943), done.
From https://github.com/git/git
+ ffe2b816f5...106a830b98 jch -> origin/jch (forced update)
e9019fcafe..f85a7e6620 master -> origin/master
+ c42f45431d...00534a21ce next -> origin/next (forced update)
+ f6884212b2...73452939f9 seen -> origin/seen (forced update)
Note that it downloaded over 400k objects in an almost 300MB packfile.
Looking at the objects that I already had and the objects in the newly
downloaded packfile:
$ git rev-list --objects origin/master@{1} origin/next@{1} origin/jch@{1} origin/seen@{1} | cut -d' ' -f1 | sort >existing-objects
$ git verify-pack -v .git/objects/pack/pack-080fedc9c19f711dd1b22103b382ede8925b90a6.idx | sed -n -E -e 's/^([0-9a-f]{40}) .*/\1/p' | sort >received-objects
$ wc -l existing-objects received-objects
406954 existing-objects
406093 received-objects
813047 total
$ git diff --no-index --stat existing-objects received-objects
existing-objects => received-objects | 3615 +++++++++++++---------------------
1 file changed, 1377 insertions(+), 2238 deletions(-)
The vast majority of objects were already available locally.
What's going on?!
This might be a recurring issue: I remember a similar large download
from 2 or 3 weeks ago, but back then I didn't have time to investigate
or to report.
I tried to reproduce this issue by attempting to recreate the state of
my git repository from yesterday in a new repo, but no luck, 'git
fetch' only downloads what's necessary.
I use a Git version based on next, with a bunch of my own patches on
top, but none of them has anything to do with object transfer and I've
been using most of them for years. I don't have any config set under
'fetch.*' or 'transfer.*'.
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-07 22:32 UTC|newest]
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2026-07-07 22:32 SZEDER Gábor [this message]
2026-07-07 22:51 ` Incremental 'git fetch' downloaded everything again Junio C Hamano
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