From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 11:48:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Poor performance of git describe in big repos
Message-ID: <20130530114808.GD17475@serenity.lan>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-05NPQLVFhtb9KMLNLc5MqguBYM1=gKEVrrtT3kSMiZKma_g@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:38:32AM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> One factor might be the size of my repo (.git is around 2.4G). Could
> this just be due to computational cost of searching through large
> packs to walk the commit chain? Is there any way to make this easier
> for git to do?

What does "git count-objects -v" say for your repository?

You may find that performance improves if you repack with "git gc
--aggressive".