On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 10:50:48AM -0400, Derrick Stolee wrote: > Note that I don't include the "without patch" numbers. For some > reason the path provided is particularly nasty and caused 20,000+ > missing blobs to be downloaded one-by-one (remember: VFS for Git > has many partial-clone-like behaviors). I canceled my test after 55 > minutes. I'll dig in more to see what is going on, since only 37 > commits actually change that path. Don't bother digging into it, I know why it happens (and how to avoid it! :), but don't have the time right now to explain.