"Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Perhaps I am proposing a total idiocy, I don't know git-fetch > internals, but wouldn't be better to avoid trying to download a non > existing object? So to fix the problem at the origin? > > I don't know if it is possible to list contents before try to download > so to avoid asking for a non existing object. There is no way for the downloader to know if the upstream repository has packed which object. What is happening is that the commit walker asks for loose object first because it does not know. Upon getting a "no such file" (or in the case of misconfigured HTTP server that does not say 404, "corrupt object"), it then checks if the object appears in the pack by downloading the pack index. It can tell what objects are in the packs by looking at the pack index and downloads the pack that contains needed object. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html