There is an issue when fetching into a partial clone, and the server sends a REF_DELTA object that is based on a missing promisor object. Here is a fix; more details are in the commit message of patch 2. Jonathan Tan (2): t5616: refactor packfile replacement index-pack: prefetch missing REF_DELTA bases builtin/index-pack.c | 26 ++++++++++- t/t5616-partial-clone.sh | 95 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 2 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) -- 2.21.0.1020.gf2820cf01a-goog