On Thu 23.Jul'09 at 9:19:21 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > and notice how that makes my pitiful harddisc look like Linus' SSD! And the > > result is the same. > > The result is the same, yes, but it doesn't do error checking. Oh, I see. > So we _could_ make 'git branch' not actually read and verify the commits. > It doesn't strictly _need_ to, unless you use 'git branch -v' or > something. That would speed it up further, but the verification is nice, > and as long as performance isn't _horrible_ I think we're better off doing > it. Right, but I would definitely like having some option like --dont-check to 'git branch', and I think I would use it as default (unless experience tells that errors happen often). > After all, you'll see the problem only once. True, but paradoxically that is also the reason why I notice it and makes it feel bad. Everytime I did the first 'git branch' those 5 seconds really hurt, because I wondered why it couldn't be done in 0s like subsequent commands. But sure, this was definitely not a pressing issue and your patch made it even less. I am happy that it takes 1s now, and I really appreciated your patch! Thanks, Carlos -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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