Re: http protocol, cloning git.git, fails (too many open files)

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:

Dear diary, on Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 01:42:33AM CET, I got a letter
where wa1ter@myrealbox.com said that...

quoted

So, what does cogito do differently that accounts for more open files?

Cogito uses the same logic and underlying GIT fetching commands for
cloning as well as for fetching,...

Ah, you are absolutely right.  I've forgotten about that "dumb
http support" in git-clone.sh.  That was done back when packs
were introduced but http-fetch was not told about them as a
stop-gap measure.

No wonder we do not see the same problem from git-clone.  Thanks
for reminding me.