Re: warning: no common commits - slow pull

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Len Brown wrote:

> On Friday 15 February 2008, Len Brown wrote:
> > it happened again.
> > 
> > this morning I pulled linus' tree up through 
> > 4ee29f6a52158cea526b16a44ae38643946103ec
> > 
> > then during the day, linus declared "rc2".
> > 
> > and now I pulled linus' tree again,
> > which has a HEAD now of 
> > 
> > 101142c37be8e5af9b847860219217e6b958c739
> > 
> > and the pull sucked down 172 MB even though the uncompressed
> > diff between the two is 0.3 MB.
> > 
> > -Len
> > 
> > [lenb@d975xbx2 linus (master)]$ git pull
> > remote: Counting objects: 649, done.
> > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (106/106), done.
> > remote: Total 513 (delta 417), reused 503 (delta 407)
> > Receiving objects: 100% (513/513), 116.67 KiB, done.
> > Resolving deltas: 100% (417/417), completed with 103 local objects.
> > warning: no common commits
> > remote: Counting objects: 710725, done.
> > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (125738/125738), done.
> > remote: Total 710725 (delta 589584), reused 704450 (delta 584029)
> > Receiving objects: 100% (710725/710725), 172.71 MiB | 1073 KiB/s, done.
> > Resolving deltas: 100% (589584/589584), done.
> > From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
> >  * [new tag]         v2.6.25-rc2 -> v2.6.25-rc2
> > Updating 4ee29f6..101142c
> > Fast forward
> >  Makefile                               |    4 +-
> ...
> > [lenb@d975xbx2 linus (master)]$            
> > [lenb@d975xbx2 linus (master)]$ git --version
> > git version 1.5.4.1.122.gaa8d
> 
> It still happens with latest git. (linus has declared -rc3 this time)

So it happens everytime a new tag is fetched.

> unfortunately for me, i'm not on broadband this time so it is extremely painful --
> to the point that i simply can't update this tree until i get home.

What happens if you restart the pull after interrupting the first 
attempt?


Nicolas