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[PATCH 1/1] builtin/pack-objects.c: avoid iterating all refs

From
Jacob Vosmaer <jacob@gitlab.com>
Date
Jan 19, 2021, 14:33 UTC
Message-ID
<20210119143348.27535-2-jacob@gitlab.com>
In-Reply-To
<20210119143348.27535-1-jacob@gitlab.com>

In git-pack-objects, we iterate over all the tags if the --include-tag option is passed on the command line. For some reason this uses for_each_ref which is expensive if the repo has many refs. We should use a prefix iterator instead.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Vosmaer <jacob@gitlab.com>
---
 builtin/pack-objects.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builtin/pack-objects.c b/builtin/pack-objects.c
index 2a00358f34..2b32bc93bd 100644
--- a/builtin/pack-objects.c
+++ b/builtin/pack-objects.c
@@ -3740,7 +3740,7 @@ int cmd_pack_objects(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	}
 	cleanup_preferred_base();
 	if (include_tag && nr_result)
-		for_each_ref(add_ref_tag, NULL);
+		for_each_fullref_in("refs/tags/", add_ref_tag, NULL, 0);
 	stop_progress(&progress_state);
 	trace2_region_leave("pack-objects", "enumerate-objects",
 			    the_repository);
-- 
2.30.0
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