From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:44:24 GMT
Subject: Re: git branch performance problem?
Message-ID: <8c5c35580710101344t3aed4214h4f999072483c4cb5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <f329bf540710101322xdea6210x5576779f2efd89b7@mail.gmail.com>

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