Re: git doing large refetches

[Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>]

On Thursday, 25 June 2020, 19:06:16 BST, Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com> wrote:

> Hi,

> On 25/06/20 05:46PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Lately I noticed that git occasionally do very large re-fetches, despite the difference between local and remote being not large. For example, here are two aborted fetches (see how small the emumerating / counting /compressing are, compared to the receiving object number):
> > 
> > $ git fetch torvalds
> > remote: Enumerating objects: 19374, done.
> > remote: Counting objects: 100% (19374/19374), done.
> > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4016/4016), done.
> > ^Cceiving objects:  2% (161673/7478285), 80.54 MiB | 2.78 MiB/s
> > 
> > $ git fetch sound
> > remote: Enumerating objects: 52009, done.
> > remote: Counting objects: 100% (52009/52009), done.
> > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5480/5480), done.
> > ^Cceiving objects:  1% (74819/7481898), 37.92 MiB | 1.98 MiB/s
> > 
> > I don't see any real pattern, as the last few times I fetch from either of those two are also quite small ( a few days ago).
> > 
> > $ git --version
> > git version 2.26.2

> See https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200422155047.GB91734@google.com/

> This problem shouldn't be present in v2.27.*

Thanks a lot! Glad to know it is already fixed!

Cheers,

Hin-Tak