Re: Git is not scalable with too many refs/*

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On Friday, September 30, 2011 04:06:31 pm Martin Fick wrote:
> 
> OK, I narrowed it down I believe.  If I comment out the
> invalidate_cached_refs() line in write_ref_sha1(), it
> speeds through this section.
> 
> I guess this makes sense, we invalidate the cache and
> have to rebuild it after every new ref is added? 
> Perhaps a simple fix would be to move the invalidation
> right after all the refs are updated?  Maybe
> write_ref_sha1 could take in a flag to tell it to not
> invalidate the cache so that during iterative updates it
> could be disabled and then run manually after the
> update?

Would this solution be acceptable if I submitted a patch to 
do it?  My test shows that this will make a full fetch of 
~80K changes go from 4:50min to 1:50min,

-Martin

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