Re: git pull takes ~8 seconds on up-to-date Linux git tree

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 04:14:54PM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
>>
>>> with current trunk I get the following on an up-to-date Linux tree:
>>> 
>>> markus@x4 linux % time git pull
>>> Already up-to-date.
>>> git pull  7.84s user 0.26s system 92% cpu 8.743 total
>>> 
>>> git version 1.7.12 is much quicker:
>>> 
>>> markus@x4 linux % time git pull
>>> Already up-to-date.
>>> git pull  0.10s user 0.02s system 16% cpu 0.740 total
>>
>> Yikes. I can easily reproduce here. Bisecting between master and
>> v1.7.12 gives a curious result: the slowdown first occurs with the merge
>> commit 34f5130 (Merge branch 'jc/merge-bases', 2012-09-11). But neither
>> of its parents is slow. I don't see anything obviously suspect in the
>> merge, though.
>
> I think the following is likely to be the correct solution to this.