René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Issue cloning large repositories","articleBody":"GitPython seems to break on large repositories. I've hacked a bit of additional output into the assertion at https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/blob/master/git/remote.py#L576 :\n\n```\n        # NOTE: We assume to fetch at least enough progress lines to allow matching each fetch head line with it.\n        assert len(fetch_info_lines) \u003e= len(fetch_head_info), \"%d \u003c= %d - len(fetch_head_info) \u003c= len(fetch_info_lines) : len(%s) \u003c= len(%s)\" % (\n            len(fetch_head_info),\n            len(fetch_info_lines),\n            fetch_head_info,\n            fetch_info_lines)\n```\n\nWhen I run `git.Repo.clone_from()` or `.fetch()`, it produces:\n\n```\n[DEBUG reconcile_git_repos.py:95 -       clone_or_fetch() ] Fetching origin in /localfs/users/jantman/B-07815/storyville2.git\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"./reconcile_git_repos.py\", line 168, in \u003cmodule\u003e\n    args = parse_args(sys.argv[1:])\n  File \"./reconcile_git_repos.py\", line 75, in run\n    self.clone_or_fetch(path, url, fetch=fetch)\n  File \"./reconcile_git_repos.py\", line 96, in clone_or_fetch\n    except git.exc.NoSuchPathError:\n  File \"/home/jantman/tickets/B-07815/lib/python2.7/site-packages/git/remote.py\", line 654, in fetch\n    res = self._get_fetch_info_from_stderr(proc, progress or RemoteProgress())\n  File \"/home/jantman/tickets/B-07815/lib/python2.7/site-packages/git/remote.py\", line 588, in _get_fetch_info_from_stderr\n    fetch_info_lines)\nAssertionError: 1944 \u003c= 1716 : len([u\"c415f018\n```\n\n... and then an amazingly long line of output.\n\nThis appears to happen with very large repositories; I honestly can't tell if the issue here is commit messages or the repository size - the one I used for testing has (yeah..... :( ) 4,789 branches.\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jantman","@type":"Person","name":"jantman"},"datePublished":"2015-06-25T16:28:18.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":17},"url":"https://github.com/301/GitPython/issues/301"}