On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:48:34PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I think the right fix for this is to change upload-pack to > traverse reachability chain from the "want" heads as it gets > "have" from the downloader, and stop responding "continue" when > all "want" heads can reach some "have" commits. This would not > prevent it from going down all the way to the root commit if > what is wanted does not have anything to do with what the other > end has (e.g. if you have only my main project branches, and you > ask for html head for the first time), but it would have > prevented Ralf's tree from getting "continue" after he asked > only for v2.6.16.18 tag and said he has 2.6.16.18 commit and its > ancestors. It should not be too difficult to do this, but here > is an alternative, client-side workaround. > > -- >8 -- > [PATCH] fetch-pack: give up after getting too many "ack continue" So I did test your patch. In the big, slow repository it cuts down the time for a git fetch git://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git master:v2.6.16-stable from like 6min to about 7s. Thanks! Ralf - : 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