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Re: Slow "git rev-list origin/master --not --all" or "git fetch" slow when downloading nothing

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Nov 5, 2008, 17:37 UTC
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On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Santi Béjar wrote:
> 
>   In cold cache "git rev-list origin/master --not --all" is slow
> reading many files:
Hmm. It sounds like you possibly don't have packed refs. 
Have you done "git gc" on that thing lately? What does "strace" say?
		Linus
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