Re: Performance issue of 'git branch'

> Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:21:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> > 
>> > I wonder if there is some way to only load the crazy curl stuff when we 
>> > actually want open a http: connection.
>> 
>> Well, we could use dlopen(), but I'm not sure that qualifies as a
>> _sane_ solution --- especially given that there are approximately 15
>> interfaces used by git, that we'd have to resolve using dlsym().
>
> Yea, that's not sane.
>
> Probably the better approach is to have git fetch and git push be a
> different binary from main git, so we only pay the libcurl loading
> overheads when we hit transport.