From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:17:06 GMT Subject: Re: git branch performance problem? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580710101344t3aed4214h4f999072483c4cb5@mail.gmail.com> 2007/10/10, Lars Hjemli : > On 10/10/07, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > I'm seeing very slow performance with 'git-branch'. Is this the > > canonical way to find out the current branch? > > You could also try 'git symbolic-ref HEAD', but see below... > > > hanwen@lilypond:/tmp/z$ find .git/refs/remotes | wc -l > > 1856 > > You probably want to run 'git gc' (which will run 'git pack-refs', > i.e. put all files currently under .git/refs into a single file). This > should speed up 'git branch' (and quite possibly other commands too). This seems rather unuseful. After running gc pack-refs --all, I lost my HEAD, hanwen@lilypond:~/vc/git5$ git show HEAD fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions Is there a way to only pack refs under a certain subdirectory of .git/refs ? (I'm thinking of .git/refs/remotes ) -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen