From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:37:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Slow "git rev-list origin/master --not --all" or "git fetch" slow when downloading nothing
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811050935270.3419@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <adf1fd3d0811050138j7b8bbed1nd94a999f55e38d61@mail.gmail.com>



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