Time needed to execute git-peek-remote in my box with cold cache currently is: - git tree 2.347 ms - linux tree 2.144 ms And refs are *already* packed in both repos. Looking at packed-refs file, it contains something like: d9b0f913ce0508fcc83e642e0241f373428368e5 refs/tags/v1.4.3 4314f5982d2aac08001a977fc0b1b611e858e025 refs/tags/v1.4.3-rc1 while I would need something like git-peek-remote output, d9b0f913ce0508fcc83e642e0241f373428368e5 refs/tags/v1.4.3 e0b0830726286287744cc9e1a629a534bbe75452 refs/tags/v1.4.3^{} 4314f5982d2aac08001a977fc0b1b611e858e025 refs/tags/v1.4.3-rc1 1965efb1599f59b8e3380335d1fa395e2008a30b refs/tags/v1.4.3-rc1^{} Because the sha value a tag points to is needed to match against git-rev-list output so to identify tagged revisions. Would be possible to store in packed-refs also the dereferenced tag info, so that cold opening of a repository would be much faster? Just to give an idea, with warmed up cache, refs reading times are: - git tree 43 ms - linux tree 28 ms Thanks Marco P.S: In case it's not clear I don't suggest to read directly the packed-refs file with the added info, but always to use git-peek-remote that _would_ became much faster. - 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