Jason Merrill <jason@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 08/09/2009 03:43 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Nicolas Pitre<nico@xxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> If you do a clone using the git:// protocol and the server sends you >>> only the ref for the trunk branch, >> >> A clone will fetch all branches from refs/heads/*. >> >>> then it should send you only objects reachable from that branch. >> >> Apparantly this does not work. I'd guess the extra objects are needed >> due to the delta compression. > > I just tried doing a clone of the GCC repository, then git gc > --prune=now, and another clone specifying --reference to the first, > and it wanted to download all the unreachable objects again. So it > doesn't seem to be a compression issue. > > This is with git 1.6.4 on both ends. Which protocol did you use? If you use git:// or ssh://, it's normally a security feature that Git sends you only reachable objects. If it doesn't, it's a serious bug. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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