RE: Slow fetch on repo with tags per each commit (à la Vim)

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 31, 2021, 16:00 UTC
Message-ID: <60b50829553df_24d2820813@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <f9c1115a-2e17-9d3e-02f5-138eab8048d9@gmail.com>

Bagas Sanjaya wrote:

> I have full clone of Vim repository [1] on my computer. This repo has 
> tags for each commit, meaning that when there is a new commit landed on 
> default (master) branch, it will be tagged (something close to release 
> tags but not same).

I sometimes work on that repo and I just have to say how much of a pleasure it is to work on a properly maintained repo such as git.git.

My last bisection on vim.git landed on this beauty of a commit:

    Update runtime files

 runtime/autoload/netrw.vim         | 1982 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 runtime/autoload/netrwSettings.vim |   10 +-
 runtime/doc/eval.txt               |   17 +-
 runtime/doc/filetype.txt           |   12 +-
 runtime/doc/options.txt            |    2 +-
 runtime/doc/pi_netrw.txt           |   94 +--
 runtime/doc/popup.txt              |    8 +-
 runtime/doc/quickfix.txt           |    8 +-
 runtime/doc/quickref.txt           |    3 +-
 runtime/doc/syntax.txt             |    3 +-
 runtime/doc/tags                   |    5 +
 runtime/doc/todo.txt               |   45 +-
 runtime/doc/usr_27.txt             |   14 +-
 runtime/doc/version8.txt           |   24 +-
 runtime/doc/windows.txt            |    4 +-
 runtime/ftplugin/qf.vim            |   10 +-
 runtime/lang/menu_sr_rs.utf-8.vim  |   72 +-
 runtime/optwin.vim                 |    4 +-
 runtime/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim     |   14 +-
 runtime/syntax/lisp.vim            |    8 +-
 runtime/syntax/vim.vim             |   66 +-
 runtime/tutor/README.txt           |    2 +-
 src/po/sr.po                       |  677 ++++++++++---------
 23 files changed, 1797 insertions(+), 1287 deletions(-)

Three years of development of a plugin in a single commit.

That's a yikes.

https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/85850f3a5

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Felipe Contreras