Subject: Re: Poor performance of git describe in big repos

From: Thomas Rast <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 12:27:11 +0200

Thomas Rast <[email-masked]> writes:

> However, if that turns out to be the culprit, it's not fixable
> currently[1].  Having commits with insanely long messages is just, well,
> insane.
>
> [1]  unless we do a major rework of the loading infrastructure, so that
> we can teach it to load only the beginning of a commit as long as we are
> only interested in parents and such

Actually, Peff, doesn't your commit parent/tree pointer caching give us
this for free?

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Thomas Rast
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