I tested now with both client and server running got 0.116-current, I'm
getting the same error. This error is only happening with one of my
repos, which has a particularly large number of files and uses a lot of
disk. If you need it, I can send you the repo so you can take a look.

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Aaron Lin
jrmu@ircnow.org
IRCNow (https://ircnow.org)

On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 01:50:22PM -0700, jrmu wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm running into an issue with cloning large repositories (>100MB with
> thousands of files) using got and gotd. I'm not sure if this is a
> configuration error on my side or a bug. I don't have a problem with
> small repos, only a particularly large one.
> 
> I set up gotd and gotwebd using the guides I wrote here:
> 
> https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Gotd.Configure
> https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Gotwebd.Configure
> 
> At the suggestion of stsp on IRC, I tried recreating the got repo using
> got 0.116-current but I'm still getting the same error.
> 
> $ got clone ssh://anonymous@got.gameoftrees.org/got.git
> $ got checkout got.git
> $ mkdir ~/bin
> $ cd ~/got
> $ make obj
> $ make
> $ make install
> $ make obj
> $ make server
> $ make server-install
> $ doas chsh -s /home/jrmu/bin/gotsh anonymous
> $ doas /home/jrmu/bin/gotd -f /etc/gotd.conf -dvv
> parent: socket: /var/run/gotd.sock
> parent: user: _gotd
> listen: listening for client connections
> ...
> parent: starting reader for repository almanack
> parent: proc repo_read /var/git/almanack.git is on fd 9
> session_read /var/git/almanack.git: uid 1002: expecting capabilities
> session_read /var/git/almanack.git: receiving capabilities from uid 1002
> session_read /var/git/almanack.git: expecting 3 capabilities from uid 1002
> session_read /var/git/almanack.git: uid 1002: capability agent=got/0.116-current
> session_read /var/git/almanack.git: uid 1002: capability ofs-delta
> session_read /var/git/almanack.git: uid 1002: capability side-band-64k
> session_read /var/git/almanack.git: uid 1002: expecting want-lines
> session_read /var/git/almanack.git: received want-line from uid 1002
> repo_read /var/git/almanack.git: client wants e7973d66bf6277d2d3b1850d5466db2b48a86b11
> repo_read /var/git/almanack.git: sending ACK for e7973d66bf6277d2d3b1850d5466db2b48a86b11
> session_read /var/git/almanack.git: received flush-pkt from uid 1002
> session_read /var/git/almanack.git: uid 1002: expecting have-lines or 'done'
> session_read /var/git/almanack.git: received 'done' from uid 1002
> repo_read /var/git/almanack.git: receiving delta cache file
> repo_read /var/git/almanack.git: receiving pack pipe descriptor
> repo_read /var/git/almanack.git: packfile request received
> repo_read /var/git/almanack.git: sending packfile: raw object has unexpected size
> session_read /var/git/almanack.git: uid 1002: raw object has unexpected size
> session_read /var/git/almanack.git: uid 1002: disconnecting
> session_read /var/git/almanack.git: session_read /var/git/almanack.git: shutting down
> parent: uid 1002: disconnecting
> parent: kill -15 31223
> parent: kill -15 21773
> parent: reaped pid 31223
> listen: client disconnecting
> listen: client on fd 6 disconnecting
> repo_read /var/git/almanack.git: repo_read /var/git/almanack.git: shutting down
> parent: reaped pid 21773
> 
> On a client PC (running got 0.110) I ran this:
> 
> $ got clone ssh://anonymous@jrmu.host.nastycode.com/almanack.git 
> Connecting to ssh://anonymous@jrmu.host.nastycode.com/almanack.git
> server: 1 commits colored, 2872 objects found, deltify 90%gotsh: raw object has unexpected size
> got-fetch-pack: unknown side-band received from server
> got: bad packet received
> 
> gotsh keeps reporting that the raw object has an unexpected size, I keep
> getting that same error message.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
> 
> --
> Aaron Lin
> jrmu@ircnow.org
> IRCNow (https://ircnow.org)
>