Re: git slow unless piped to cat

From: Bryan Turner <bturner@atlassian.com>
Date: Aug 27, 2019, 21:38 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGyf7-EaumF+oZFUhNtifrCvqBr1DjcFh8rgQMswcpwip3Bx7w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190827213248.kzpszutt46ipboq4@pengutronix.de>

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 2:32 PM Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 02:59:30PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:04:27PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> >
> > to see the loose ones. If there are a lot, try:
> >
> >   git pack-refs --prune --all
> >
> > (or just "git gc", which does this).
>
> This is a daily updated mirror that is also incrementally backed up. I
> repack from time to time, but hesitate to do this regularily as each
> time I repack the next backup run is "expensive" and I get many small
> packs. I did this now anyhow.

Just noting that Jeff didn't suggest a repack; he suggested a pack-refs. This should have little, if any impact on your backup processing, because all it's going to do is rewrite the "packed-refs" file and delete loose refs. It doesn't modify any files under objects/ at all.

Bryan