Re: I: git-fetch: -n option disappeared but git-fetch(1) still describe it

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Mar 12, 2008, 14:52 UTC
Message-ID: <47D7EE27.50407@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20080312105102.GE14040@wo.int.altlinux.org>

Dmitry V. Levin wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> git-fetch builtinification (commit v1.5.3.2-93-gb888d61) apparently
> dropped -n option (alias to --no-tags) documented in
> Documentation/fetch-options.txt
> 
> Either builtin-fetch.c or Documentation/fetch-options.txt should be
> adjusted to sync the code with its docs.
> 
> Original bug report:
> https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14870
>

I have a (very) vague memory that git-fetch.sh had to iterate over tags one by one, making tag-heavy projects excruciatingly slow to fetch from with the shellscript version. Some pathological case with 2700 tags was presented where a fetch took nearly an hour, iirc. AFAIR, the builtinification (or was it a protocol extension?) reduced that time to something around 10 seconds for the pathological case.

Does anyone else have a sharper memory of what caused the -n option to be dropped?

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