Hi, On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Andy Parkins wrote: > On Thursday 2006 December 14 15:45, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > > I just noticed that git-fetch now runs git-show-ref --verify on every > > tag it encounters. This seems to slow down fetch over here. > > There aren't any tags in this repository :-) git-show-ref traverses every single _local_ tag when called. This is to overcome the problem that tags can be packed now, so a simple file existence check is not sufficient. It would be much faster, probably, if you pack the local refs. IIRC I once argued for automatically packing refs (and all refs), but this has not been picked up, and I do not really care about it either. Ciao, Dscho - 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