Re: git slow unless piped to cat

From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Date: Aug 28, 2019, 10:24 UTC
Message-ID: <20190828102417.un2hjuizfmu3n7ya@pengutronix.de>
In-Reply-To: <CAGyf7-EaumF+oZFUhNtifrCvqBr1DjcFh8rgQMswcpwip3Bx7w@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 02:38:57PM -0700, Bryan Turner wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 2:32 PM Uwe Kleine-König
> <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 02:59:30PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:04:27PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > >
> > > to see the loose ones. If there are a lot, try:
> > >
> > >   git pack-refs --prune --all
> > >
> > > (or just "git gc", which does this).
> >
> > This is a daily updated mirror that is also incrementally backed up. I
> > repack from time to time, but hesitate to do this regularily as each
> > time I repack the next backup run is "expensive" and I get many small
> > packs. I did this now anyhow.
> 
> Just noting that Jeff didn't suggest a repack; he suggested a
> pack-refs. This should have little, if any impact on your backup
> processing, because all it's going to do is rewrite the "packed-refs"
> file and delete loose refs. It doesn't modify any files under objects/
> at all.

Ah, right. That also explains why I still had a few loose objects. I cut-n-pasted the command, so I did as suggested, just thought it was something different.

Thanks Uwe

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