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[PU PATCH] Fix git fetch for very large ref counts

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Julian Phillips <jp3@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date
Feb 13, 2007, 01:21 UTC
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<11713297014015-git-send-email-julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>

The updated git fetch in pu is vastly improved on repositories with very large numbers of refs. The time taken for a no-op fetch over ~9000 refs drops from ~48m to ~0.5m.

However, before git fetch will actually run on a repository with ~9000 refs the calling interface between fetch and fetch--tool needs to be changed. The existing version passes the entire reflist on the command line, which means that it is subject to the maxiumum environment size passed to a child process by execve.

The following patches add a stdin based interface to fetch--tool allowing the ~9000 refs to be passed without exceeding the environment limit.

-- Julian

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  1. Fix git fetch for very large ref countsJulian Phillips, Feb 13, 2007
  2. Allow fetch--tool to read from stdinJulian Phillips, Feb 13, 2007
  3. Use stdin reflist passing in parse-remoteJulian Phillips, Feb 13, 2007
  4. Use stdin reflist passing in git-fetch.shJulian Phillips, Feb 13, 2007
  5. Linus TorvaldsFeb 13, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 13, 2007
  7. Julian PhillipsFeb 13, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoFeb 13, 2007

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