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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.*'.


             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-07 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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