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Re: git branch performance problem?

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LHLars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 10, 2007, 20:44 UTC
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On 10/10/07, Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm seeing very slow performance with 'git-branch'.  Is this the
> canonical way to find out the current branch?
You could also try 'git symbolic-ref HEAD', but see below...
> hanwen@lilypond:/tmp/z$ find .git/refs/remotes | wc -l
> 1856

You probably want to run 'git gc' (which will run 'git pack-refs', i.e. put all files currently under .git/refs into a single file). This should speed up 'git branch' (and quite possibly other commands too).

-- larsh

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