From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:57:37 GMT Subject: Re: git fetch -v not at all verbose? Message-ID: <20100121165737.GG19078@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <20100121163518.GA16466@redhat.com> "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 08:18:58AM -0800, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > > > On many of my trees (with linux kernel), git fetch is slower than git clone. > > > Even more annoyingly, it would hang sometimes for tens of minutes without any > > > output, even if -v is supplied. ... > > Given the symptom, it sounds to me like your local repository > > is some 1,000s of commits ahead of the remote repository you are > > fetching from. Is that true? > > Hmm, no, but what is true is that I fetched several remotes > that diverged significantly into the same local repository. > Would that have same effect? Yes. > > Are you fetching from a configured remote that has tracking branches, > > or are you fetching through a one-shot URL pasted onto the command > > line? > > Configured remote. Hmm. I wonder if we should try to shortcut the commit walking in a case like this and just feed the tracking branches we already have. -- Shawn.