I've observed 'got fetch' downloading a much larger pack than expected.

This problem has been known for some time, and I have now figured out
what is going wrong. In the case observed the patch below reduces
the number of objects fetched from 57034 to 1147. And the size of
the downloaded pack changed from >100 MB to 2MB.

got fetch makes a mistake when advertising references contained in the
local repository to the server. Unless we are running in mirror mode,
we only advertise refs/tags/ and any branches in refs/remotes/ which
correspond to the branches we want to fetch. Other existing references
are not advertised.

So, for example, when a repository is switched out of mirror mode and
we are now fetching 'refs/heads/main', got fetch tells the server that
it does not have any objects yet. There is no refs/remotes/origin/main
which would point at relevant objecs because we were in mirror mode
before. The fact that there already is a copy of many objects reachable
via refs/heads/main (created in mirror mode) is ignored.

The fix is to simply tell the server about everything we have, no
matter which references we want to download. The code is already set
up to distinguish between references which we have and references we
want to fetch. The server will now always send us a minimal pack file.

ok?

diff 088449d31db27c8682d5e9dc737d92d05df6605e /home/stsp/src/got
blob - 5206b456ca799c99ae1e3454f99d30f377a63361
file + lib/fetch.c
--- lib/fetch.c
+++ lib/fetch.c
@@ -124,8 +124,6 @@ got_fetch_pack(struct got_object_id **pack_hash, struc
 	off_t packfile_size = 0;
 	struct got_packfile_hdr pack_hdr;
 	uint32_t nobj = 0;
-	char *ref_prefix = NULL;
-	size_t ref_prefixlen = 0;
 	char *path;
 	char *progress = NULL;
 
@@ -153,13 +151,6 @@ got_fetch_pack(struct got_object_id **pack_hash, struc
 	TAILQ_INIT(&have_refs);
 	TAILQ_INIT(&my_refs);
 
-	if (!mirror_references) {
-		if (asprintf(&ref_prefix, "refs/remotes/%s/",
-		    remote_name) == -1)
-			return got_error_from_errno("asprintf");
-		ref_prefixlen = strlen(ref_prefix);
-	}
-
 	if (!list_refs_only) {
 		err = got_ref_list(&my_refs, repo, NULL,
 		    got_ref_cmp_by_name, NULL);
@@ -174,60 +165,17 @@ got_fetch_pack(struct got_object_id **pack_hash, struc
 		if (got_ref_is_symbolic(re->ref))
 			continue;
 
-		refname = got_ref_get_name(re->ref);
-
-		if (mirror_references) {
-			char *name;
-			err = got_ref_resolve(&id, repo, re->ref);
-			if (err)
-				goto done;
-			name = strdup(refname);
-			if (name == NULL) {
-				err = got_error_from_errno("strdup");
-				goto done;
-			}
-			err = got_pathlist_append(&have_refs, name, id);
-			if (err)
-				goto done;
-			continue;
+		err = got_ref_resolve(&id, repo, re->ref);
+		if (err)
+			goto done;
+		refname = strdup(got_ref_get_name(re->ref));
+		if (refname == NULL) {
+			err = got_error_from_errno("strdup");
+			goto done;
 		}
-
-		if (strncmp("refs/tags/", refname, 10) == 0) {
-			char *tagname;
-
-			err = got_ref_resolve(&id, repo, re->ref);
-			if (err)
-				goto done;
-			tagname = strdup(refname);
-			if (tagname == NULL) {
-				err = got_error_from_errno("strdup");
-				goto done;
-			}
-			err = got_pathlist_append(&have_refs, tagname, id);
-			if (err) {
-				free(tagname);
-				goto done;
-			}
-		}
-
-		if (strncmp(ref_prefix, refname, ref_prefixlen) == 0) {
-			char *branchname;
-
-			err = got_ref_resolve(&id, repo, re->ref);
-			if (err)
-				goto done;
-
-			if (asprintf(&branchname, "refs/heads/%s",
-			    refname + ref_prefixlen) == -1) {
-				err = got_error_from_errno("asprintf");
-				goto done;
-			}
-			err = got_pathlist_append(&have_refs, branchname, id);
-			if (err) {
-				free(branchname);
-				goto done;
-			}
-		}
+		err = got_pathlist_append(&have_refs, refname, id);
+		if (err)
+			goto done;
 	}
 
 	if (list_refs_only) {
@@ -577,7 +525,6 @@ done:
 	free(tmpidxpath);
 	free(idxpath);
 	free(packpath);
-	free(ref_prefix);
 	free(progress);
 
 	TAILQ_FOREACH(pe, &have_refs, entry) {