Re: [PATCH] git-branch: only traverse the requested refs

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 10, 2007, 23:00 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710102358110.4174@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <1192053283-2351-1-git-send-email-hjemli@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Lars Hjemli wrote:

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> This avoids looking at every single file below .git/refs when git-branch 
> is fetching the list of refs to display.
> 
> [...]
>
> +	if (kinds & REF_LOCAL_BRANCH) {
> +		ref_list.kinds = REF_LOCAL_BRANCH;
> +		for_each_branch_ref(append_ref, &ref_list);
> +	}

The function for_each_branch_ref() calls do_for_each_ref(), which in turn calls get_loose_refs(), which calls get_ref_dir() to read all loose refs, if they have not yet been read.

So I think that your patch (unfortunately) will no help Han-Wen's situation.

Ciao, Dscho