I had a master ref, pointing to commit 231e284, which I branched to make a "coupon" ref. My remote, "origin" had a copy of commit 231e284. I modified one file and committed it on "coupon", yielding commit 03b6489. Then I pushed coupon to origin. I expected that git-push would send about five objects, but instead it reported sending 1,315. Command output is pasted at http://nopaste.info/a866bb00e0.html . You can verify that: 1. I pushed only coupon, not any other ref. 2. origin already had a copy of coupon's predecessor commit, 231e284. 3. 03b6489 was identical to 231e284 except for changes in one file. 4. I was not doing anything obviously strange. What happened here? Why did git-push send 1,315 objects instead of 5? Mark Jason Dominus mjd@xxxxxxxxxx -- 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