Re: upload-pack is slow with lots of refs

> What version of git are you using?  In the past year or so, I've made
> several tweaks to speed up large numbers of refs, including:
>
>   - cff38a5 (receive-pack: eliminate duplicate .have refs, v1.7.6); note
>     that this only helps if they are being pulled in by an alternates
>     repo. And even then, it only helps if they are mostly duplicates;
>     distinct ones are still O(n^2).
>
>   - 7db8d53 (fetch-pack: avoid quadratic behavior in remove_duplicates)
>     a0de288 (fetch-pack: avoid quadratic loop in filter_refs)
>     Both in v1.7.11. I think there is still a potential quadratic loop
>     in mark_complete()
>
>   - 90108a2 (upload-pack: avoid parsing tag destinations)
>     926f1dd (upload-pack: avoid parsing objects during ref advertisement)
>     Both in v1.7.10. Note that tag objects are more expensive to
>     advertise than commits, because we have to load and peel them.
>
> Even with those patches, though, I found that it was something like ~2s
> to advertise 100,000 refs.