[PATCH v4 1/3] fetch-prune: optimize dangling-ref reporting
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Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jul 2, 2025, 01:12 UTC
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From: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
When pruning during `git fetch` we check each pruned ref against the ref_store one at a time to decide whether to report it as dangling. This causes every local ref to be scanned for each ref being pruned.
If there are N refs in the repo and M refs being pruned, this code is O(M*N). However, `git remote prune` uses a very similar function that is only O(N*log(M)).
Remove the wasteful ref scanning for each pruned ref and use the faster version already available in refs_warn_dangling_symrefs. Change the message to include the original refname since the message is no longer printed immediately after the line that did just print the refname.
In a repo with 126,000 refs, where I was pruning 28,000 refs, this code made about 3.6 billion calls to strcmp and consumed 410 seconds of CPU. (Invariably in that time, my remote would timeout and the fetch would fail anyway.)
After this change, the same operation completes in under a second.
Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> --- builtin/fetch.c | 20 ++++++++++---------- builtin/remote.c | 4 ++-- refs.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/fetch.c b/builtin/fetch.c index d48262bdc717..04d10c9e781a 100644 --- a/builtin/fetch.c +++ b/builtin/fetch.c @@ -1383,9 +1383,13 @@ static int prune_refs(struct display_state *display_state, int result = 0; struct ref *ref, *stale_refs = get_stale_heads(rs, ref_map); struct strbuf err = STRBUF_INIT; + struct string_list refnames = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP; const char *dangling_msg = dry_run - ? _(" (%s will become dangling)") - : _(" (%s has become dangling)"); + ? _(" %s will become dangling after %s is deleted") + : _(" %s has become dangling after %s was deleted"); + + for (ref = stale_refs; ref; ref = ref->next) + string_list_append(&refnames, ref->name); if (!dry_run) { if (transaction) { @@ -1396,15 +1400,9 @@ static int prune_refs(struct display_state *display_state, goto cleanup; } } else { - struct string_list refnames = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP; - - for (ref = stale_refs; ref; ref = ref->next) - string_list_append(&refnames, ref->name); - result = refs_delete_refs(get_main_ref_store(the_repository), "fetch: prune", &refnames, 0); - string_list_clear(&refnames, 0); } } @@ -1416,12 +1414,14 @@ static int prune_refs(struct display_state *display_state, _("(none)"), ref->name, &ref->new_oid, &ref->old_oid, summary_width); - refs_warn_dangling_symref(get_main_ref_store(the_repository), - stderr, dangling_msg, ref->name); } + string_list_sort(&refnames); + refs_warn_dangling_symrefs(get_main_ref_store(the_repository), + stderr, dangling_msg, &refnames); } cleanup: + string_list_clear(&refnames, 0); strbuf_release(&err); free_refs(stale_refs); return result; diff --git a/builtin/remote.c b/builtin/remote.c index 0d6755bcb71e..4de7dd373ae5 100644 --- a/builtin/remote.c +++ b/builtin/remote.c @@ -1522,8 +1522,8 @@ static int prune_remote(const char *remote, int dry_run) struct string_list refs_to_prune = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP; struct string_list_item *item; const char *dangling_msg = dry_run - ? _(" %s will become dangling!") - : _(" %s has become dangling!"); + ? _(" %s will become dangling after %s is deleted!") + : _(" %s has become dangling after %s was deleted!"); get_remote_ref_states(remote, &states, GET_REF_STATES); diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c index dce5c49ca2ba..651fb2d41299 100644 --- a/refs.c +++ b/refs.c @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ static int warn_if_dangling_symref(const char *refname, const char *referent UNU return 0; } - fprintf(d->fp, d->msg_fmt, refname); + fprintf(d->fp, d->msg_fmt, refname, resolves_to); fputc('\n', d->fp); return 0; }
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