From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:48:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Performance issue of 'git branch'
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0907231244020.10001@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907221921570.3352@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It uses the "raw" version of 'for_each_ref()' (which doesn't verify that 
> the ref is valid), and then does the "type verification" before it starts 
> doing any gentle commit lookup.

I submitted essentially the same patch in May:
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/120097
with the additional optimization that we don’t need to lookup commits at 
all unless we’re using -v, --merged, --no-merged, or --contains.  In my 
tests, it makes `git branch` 5 times faster on an uncached linux-2.6 
repository.

Anders