From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:34:58 GMT Subject: Re: git-fetching from a big repository is slow Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200612141620.17782.andyparkins@gmail.com> Hi, On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Andy Parkins wrote: > On Thursday 2006 December 14 15:45, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > > I just noticed that git-fetch now runs git-show-ref --verify on every > > tag it encounters. This seems to slow down fetch over here. > > There aren't any tags in this repository :-) git-show-ref traverses every single _local_ tag when called. This is to overcome the problem that tags can be packed now, so a simple file existence check is not sufficient. It would be much faster, probably, if you pack the local refs. IIRC I once argued for automatically packing refs (and all refs), but this has not been picked up, and I do not really care about it either. Ciao, Dscho