Dear diary, on Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:38:00AM CEST, I got a letter where Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> said that... > Comparing git-clone to cg-clone > > [jonsmirl@jonsmirl apps]$ time git-clone git foo > ...... > real 0m5.755s > user 0m4.548s > sys 0m0.512s > > [jonsmirl@jonsmirl apps]$ time cg-clone git foo > .... > real 0m18.970s > user 0m10.737s > sys 0m1.392s > > Why does it take cg clone so long to set up the missing tags? > git-clone is over 3x faster. How many tags do you have? It's true that cg-clone does not scale very well with big amounts of tags, because it won't fetch tagged objects you wouldn't get otherwise (so if you tagged some random huge blob or a history line which is not part of any branch you have, cg-clone won't grab it all). This unfortunately costs us one special fetch invocation per tag; I will look into hacking git-local-fetch to accept multiple commit ids at once, that should speed it up considerably. That said, with cg-clone -a I will be able to cut that difference entirely and blindly take everything from the other repository. Could you please try the patch below and check if it has at least any measurable impact on the performance at all? Thanks. diff --git a/cg-fetch b/cg-fetch index a6e6959..23e0e77 100755 --- a/cg-fetch +++ b/cg-fetch @@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ _git_wc_unneeded=1 fetch_progress() { - [ $verbose -ge 2 ] && exec cat if [ -t 1 ]; then exec "${COGITO_LIB}"cg-Xfetchprogress "$_git_objects" else @@ -166,7 +165,11 @@ fetch_http() { whead= [ "$3" ] && whead="-w $3" - (git-http-fetch -a -v $whead $recovery "$1" "$2/" 2>&1 /dev/null) | fetch_progress + if [ $verbose -ge 2 ]; then + git-http-fetch -a -v $whead $recovery "$1" "$2/" + else + (git-http-fetch -a -v $whead $recovery "$1" "$2/" 2>&1 /dev/null) | fetch_progress + fi return ${PIPESTATUS[0]} } @@ -197,7 +200,11 @@ fetch_local() { whead= [ "$3" ] && whead="-w $3" - (git-local-fetch -a -l -v $whead $recovery "$1" "$2" 2>&1 /dev/null) | fetch_progress + if [ $verbose -ge 2 ]; then + git-local-fetch -a -l -v $whead $recovery "$1" "$2" + else + (git-local-fetch -a -l -v $whead $recovery "$1" "$2" 2>&1 /dev/null) | fetch_progress + fi return ${PIPESTATUS[0]} } @@ -230,6 +237,7 @@ fetch_tags() # if so, fetch the tag -- which should be # a cheap operation -- to complete the chain. echo -n "Missing tag ${tagname#tags/}... " + local verbose=2 if $fetch "$tagname" "$uri" "$tagname" 2>/dev/null >&2; then echo "retrieved" else -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ Snow falling on Perl. White noise covering line noise. Hides all the bugs too. -- J. Putnam - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html