On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 03:40:47PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > By the way, I'd recommend the immediate workaround of > > > > git fetch --negotiation-tip=refs/remotes/xo/* xo > > > > instead. But that's a separate subject. > > It seems like if we are fetching with refspec X/*:Y/* that we should > perhaps automatically select our local Y/* negotiation tips. Actually, I guess that option is not "please prioritize these tips", but rather "use only these tips". So using it can sometimes hurt. > That said, neither it (nor the manual version above) would help the case > I've been testing with. It's a first fetch from "xo", which can reuse > history we already have from other remotes. > > I agree it's a good workaround for folks doing their daily fetches, > though. I did confirm that re-running my test with --negotiation-tip=master (to point to Linus's tree, avoiding the clogging of "next" commits) results in the usual good pack in a reasonable time. -Peff
