Weird git blame behaviour in repositories downloaded by lazy.nvim

[mawkler]

When I run git blame in any repo downloaded by lazy.nvim, git starts a seemingly infinite downoad loop:

> git blame README.md
remote: Enumerating objects: 1, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1/1), done.
remote: Total 1 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (1/1), 3.92 KiB | 3.92 MiB/s, done.
remote: Enumerating objects: 1, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1/1), done.
remote: Total 1 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (1/1), 4.00 KiB | 4.00 MiB/s, done.
remote: Enumerating objects: 1, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1/1), done.
remote: Total 1 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (1/1), 4.00 KiB | 4.00 MiB/s, done.
remote: Enumerating objects: 1, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1/1), done.
remote: Total 1 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (1/1), 4.00 KiB | 4.00 MiB/s, done.
remote: Enumerating objects: 1, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1/1), done.
remote: Total 1 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (1/1), 3.97 KiB | 3.97 MiB/s, done.
remote: Enumerating objects: 1, done.
remote: Total 1 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 1
Receiving objects: 100% (1/1), 3.97 KiB | 3.97 MiB/s, done.
remote: Enumerating objects: 1, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1/1), done.
remote: Total 1 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (1/1), 3.84 KiB | 3.84 MiB/s, done.
remote: Enumerating objects: 1, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1/1), done.
remote: Total 1 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (1/1), 3.85 KiB | 1.92 MiB/s, done.
Auto packing the repository in background for optimum performance.
See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping.
remote: Enumerating objects: 1, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1/1), done.
remote: Total 1 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (1/1), 3.83 KiB | 3.83 MiB/s, done.
# and so on...

I get this behaviour even with all the default lazy.nvim options.

I'm on git version 2.42.0 and Neovim version v0.10.0-dev-d7359a8.

Does anyone else have the same issue?

[Shougo]

I think lazy.nvim uses partial clone.

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt

[mawkler]

Ok, yes that seems to be the case. Thank you!