RE: [PATCH 7/8] receive-pack: skip connectivity checks on delete-only commands

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 21, 2021, 18:53 UTC
Message-ID: <60a801bdd1b4b_5580620828@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <68c60aff0c77c562aba5613ccbb9ab33ad8e0e08.1621451532.git.ps@pks.im>

Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

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> In the case where git-receive-pack(1) receives only commands which
> delete references, then per technical specification the client MUST NOT
> send a packfile. As a result, we know that no new objects have been
> received, which makes it a moot point to check whether all received
> objects are fully connected.

I don't know if this is related but yesterday I decided to delete a bunch of refs from a forked repo in GitHub. I did it naively with a for loop and so it was doing a bunch of `git push myrepo :ref`.

It was unbearably slow.

Sure, it was a stupid thing to do, but maybe it can help you do some tests.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras