Martin Fick wrote:
>
> I suspect that there are several commands in git
> which inadvertently scan all the refs when they probably
> shouldn't. [...] I feel like git checkout is one of those cases,
> it does not seem like git checkout should be affected by the
> number of refs in a repo?
git-checkout checks whether you are leaving any unreferenced
(orphaned) commits behind when you leave a detached HEAD, which
requires that it scan the history of all refs for the commit you just
left.
So unless you disable that warning it'll be pretty expensive
regardless.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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