On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:01:46AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Hi, > > I was at 8f3d9f354286 of: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git > > I did git remote update today and it fetched: > Receiving objects: 100% (7330823/7330823), 1.20 GiB > It updated master: 8f3d9f354286..8632e9b5645b, that is 24 small commits. > > One colleague of mine fetched 1324 commits: > Receiving objects: 100% (6820/6820), 4.21 MiB | 6.70 MiB/s, done. > Resolving deltas: 100% (5114/5114), completed with 1035 local objects. > From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux > 7e63420847ae..8632e9b5645b master -> origin/master > > Another colleague fetched the same what I and: > Receiving objects: 100% (7330823/7330823), 1.20 GiB > too. > > I did git gc --prune && git prune now and I am at 1.7G back from 3.5 G. > > Is that a bug? What info should I provide? I've helped sfr troubleshoot the same issue last week -- it's most likely due to 2.26 turning on protocol version=2 by default. Unfortunately, reproducing this has been tricky, so if you can reliably make this happen again, then providing a full copy of your local tree as well as the remote you're trying to fetch may greatly help narrow it down. With sfr (for whom fetching 1.2G from .au is a bit of a big deal), we solved it by forcing protocol.version=1. -K