Hi Robert,
Sorry about the extended delay, I haven't had a chance to do "git
hacking" in a while.
On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 10:18 AM Robert Coup <robert@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 at 22:23, Tao Klerks <tao@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > What I believe is happening is that *if* there are refs to be updated
> > (or new refs, presumably), *then* the objects returned to the client
> > are only those required for those refs. If, on the other hand, there
> > are no updated refs, then you get what is advertised in the doc: "all
> > objects as a fresh clone would [...]".
> >
> > I've tested a couple of different scenarios and the behavior seems
> > consistent with this explanation.
>
> Do you have a repo & steps that could reproduce this easily? Otherwise
> I can try and work up something.
>
Does the following work? It shows that with a change to the orphan
branch from another client, a refetch in the original client gets
about half the objects (the ones for the orphan branch that was
updated), and in another fetch right after, with no new changes, the
refetch gets all 600-or-so objects.
create_n_commits() {
for i in $(seq $2); do
echo "another new line $RANDOM" >> "$1/datafile"
git -C "$1" add datafile
git -C "$1" commit -m anothercommit -q
done
}
mkdir refetch-testing
SERVERFOLDER=refetch-testing/server
git init "$SERVERFOLDER" --bare
CLIENTFOLDER=refetch-testing/client
git init "$CLIENTFOLDER"
git -C "$CLIENTFOLDER" remote add origin "../server"
git -C "$CLIENTFOLDER" checkout -b main
create_n_commits "$CLIENTFOLDER" 100
git -C "$CLIENTFOLDER" push origin HEAD
git -C "$CLIENTFOLDER" checkout --orphan orphan
create_n_commits "$CLIENTFOLDER" 100
git -C "$CLIENTFOLDER" push origin HEAD
echo "---HERE IS A NORMAL FULL REFETCH---"
git -C "$CLIENTFOLDER" fetch --refetch
echo "---NORMAL FULL REFETCH ENDS---"
OTHERCLIENTFOLDER=refetch-testing/otherclient
git clone "$SERVERFOLDER" "$OTHERCLIENTFOLDER"
git -C "$OTHERCLIENTFOLDER" checkout orphan
create_n_commits "$OTHERCLIENTFOLDER" 5
git -C "$OTHERCLIENTFOLDER" push origin HEAD
echo "---HERE IS A WEIRD PARTIAL REFETCH OF ONE BRANCH ONLY---"
git -C "$CLIENTFOLDER" fetch --refetch
echo "---WEIRD PARTIAL REFETCH ENDS---"
echo "---HERE IS NORMAL REFETCH AGAIN---"
git -C "$CLIENTFOLDER" fetch --refetch
echo "---NORMAL REFETCH ENDS---"
rm -rf refetch-testing
