From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:21:12 GMT
Subject: Re: git-fetch per-repository speed issues
Message-ID: <7vsllhnb53.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607032213030.12404@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> Looking closer, I suspect a big part of it is that
>
> 	git-ls-remote $upload_pack --tags "$remote" |
> 	sed -ne 's|^\([0-9a-f]*\)[      ]\(refs/tags/.*\)^{}$|\1 \2|p' |
> 	while read sha1 name
> 	do
> 		..
> 	done
>
> loop.

Yes indeed.  Maybe we can do this loop in Perl.  Doing the whole
thing in C is another option but it would be somewhat painful,
unless we can deprecate all transport but git native protocols.

On the other hand, 5 seconds may not matter that much in practice.