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g0hl1n

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Today when fetching my torvalds/linux.git remote from git.kernel.org it felt strange... it received 2918038 objects (781.11 MiB) for 24d479d26b25b..a66191c590b3b by following stats:

70 files changed, 658 insertions(+), 281 deletions(-)

My gut feeling is that that's not a "normal size" for this diff stat... Am I the only one experiencing this? Is this actually expected behavior, or am I just being overly suspicious? Any idea, anybody? Especially @monsieuricon or @gregkh?

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gregkh

Greg K-H

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@g0hl1n @monsieuricon which protocol are you using, git or http?

We've seen git do this in the past, I think there are many discussions about this on the git list in the archives.
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g0hl1n@fosstodon.org

g0hl1n

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@gregkh @monsieuricon I'm using git:

origin git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git (fetch)
origin git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git (push)

You mean the git list archives also available at https://lore.kernel.org/git/?

Thanks for the quick response 🙂 So it seems I was overly suspicious 😇 just wanted to be sure nothing nasty is going on here...

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monsieuricon

K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁

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@g0hl1n @gregkh Sometimes git, for whatever reason, has trouble figuring out the minimal size of the pack you'd need and sends you an unreasonably large number of objects. That's the best explanation I can offer.
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