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From:
jrmu <jrmu@ircnow.org>
Subject:
Issue with gotd and cloning large repos
To:
gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date:
Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:50:22 -0700

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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
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