Having the list sorted means we can avoid some quadratic algorithms when comparing lists. These should typically be sorted already, but they do come from the remote, so let's be extra careful. Our ref-sorting implementation does a mergesort, so we do not have to care about performance degrading in the common case that the list is already sorted. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- builtin/fetch-pack.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/builtin/fetch-pack.c b/builtin/fetch-pack.c index 3522d8e..bee329f 100644 --- a/builtin/fetch-pack.c +++ b/builtin/fetch-pack.c @@ -777,6 +777,8 @@ static struct ref *do_fetch_pack(int fd[2], struct ref *ref = copy_ref_list(orig_ref); unsigned char sha1[20]; + sort_ref_list(&ref, ref_compare_name); + if (is_repository_shallow() && !server_supports("shallow")) die("Server does not support shallow clients"); if (server_supports("multi_ack_detailed")) { -- 1.7.10.1.19.g711d603 -- 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