From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:12:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Poor performance using reftable with many refs
Message-ID: <xmqqed01ob7p.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20250213194256.GA934256@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> ... I have trouble
> imagining it helping much beyond something like:
>
>   git branch $some_oid
>
> which creates refs/heads/$some_oid. But we probably would be better off
> warning about that at the time of writing rather than checking for
> ambiguity on each read.

Certainly.  Thanks for a well thought-out analysis.