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git prune pig slow

From
RKRussell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Date
Jul 29, 2006, 09:02 UTC
Message-ID
<20060729090250.GC26956@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Hi,
git 1.4.0, P4 2.6GHz, 1GB.

I'm trying to use "git prune" to remove some unreachable objects from my git tree. However, it appears to be _extremely_ expensive:

rmk      13376 91.3 15.7 165980 161556 pts/0   R+   09:50   5:14 git-fsck-object
stracing it shows that it's doing lots and lots of brk() calls.

I killed it after 10 minutes and decided to do the job manually - git-fsck-objects --unreachable and deleting the objects one by one is _much_ quicker than git-fsck-objects --full --cache --unreachable.

-- 
Russell King
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