On Friday 07 March 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, David Brownell wrote: > > > When I "git pull" it first fetches a bunch of files, then > > concludes (wrongly) "no common commits", then starts a > > second fetch of a *HUGE* number of files ... 400 MB is too > > much to pay when updating from rc3-last-week to rc4. But > > if I interrupt that second one with ^C, it seems that the > > first one fetched enough to make the next "git pull" go > > pretty quickly. > > Actually, if you can make a tarball of the .git directory of one of those > workspaces, and see if the bug is reproducable with that .git directory > every time (particularly when pulling a local repository), it would be > really helpful to have a reliable test case. Seems to be. Let me know where I can stash a ~300 MB tar.bz2 file for you ... > There's a debugging thing that would help, but it's not in your version. So I updated. :) > It's in next as > > 49aaddd102aff Teach upload-pack to log the received need lines to an fd > > With that commit, you should be able to do: > > GIT_DEBUG_SEND_PACK=3 git pull 3>UPLOAD_LOG > > and get a file UPLOAD_LOG that will show what it's doing, although there's > a reasonable chance that it'll only demonstrate that it's doing nothing That file has always been empty. > helpful, which we already pretty much know. Oddly, a few times when I tried that the bug didn't reproduce. One factor may be workspaces cloned a long time ago with early versions of GIT (or cogito). - Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html