Subject: Re: git fetch -v not at all verbose?

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:57:37 -0800

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 08:18:58AM -0800, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > > On many of my trees (with linux kernel), git fetch is slower than git clone.
> > > Even more annoyingly, it would hang sometimes for tens of minutes without any
> > > output, even if -v is supplied.
...
> > Given the symptom, it sounds to me like your local repository
> > is some 1,000s of commits ahead of the remote repository you are
> > fetching from.  Is that true?
> 
> Hmm, no, but what is true is that I fetched several remotes
> that diverged significantly into the same local repository.
> Would that have same effect?

Yes.

> > Are you fetching from a configured remote that has tracking branches,
> > or are you fetching through a one-shot URL pasted onto the command
> > line?
> 
> Configured remote.

Hmm.  I wonder if we should try to shortcut the commit walking in
a case like this and just feed the tracking branches we already have.

-- 
Shawn.