Slow fetches of tags

From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Date: May 24, 2006, 13:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20060524131022.GA11449@linux-mips.org>

I have a fairly large git tree (with a 320MB pack file containing some 700,000 objects). A small fetch like

  git fetch git://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/\
       linux-2.6.16.y.git master:v2.6.16-stable

which only fetches a handful of objects (v2.6.16.17 -> v2.6.16.18) will take on the order of 4-5 minutes. Adding the "-n" option is will bring the operation down to under a second, so it really is just the tags that are slowing things down so much..

  Ralf

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