On Thu 23.Jul'09 at 12:13:41 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It will still do _some_ object lookups. In particular, it will do the HEAD > > lookup in 'print_ref_list()', even if it's not strictly necessary. But it > > should cut down the noise further. > > And this (on top of them all) will basically avoid even that one. Ok, I applied (both) on top of the first one. After 7 tests I got these, time: 0.61 +/- 0.08 GIT_DEBUG_LOOKUP=1 git branch |wc -l 9 which are in fact only the branches list. Compared to yesterday, that is a huge improvement (0.6s vs 5.7s) and (9 vs 2200+). At least for me 0.6s is "instantaneous", so the issue is really gone. Thanks a lot to everyone! -- 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