On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > What version of git are you using? In the past year or so, I've made > several tweaks to speed up large numbers of refs, including: > > - cff38a5 (receive-pack: eliminate duplicate .have refs, v1.7.6); note > that this only helps if they are being pulled in by an alternates > repo. And even then, it only helps if they are mostly duplicates; > distinct ones are still O(n^2). > > - 7db8d53 (fetch-pack: avoid quadratic behavior in remove_duplicates) > a0de288 (fetch-pack: avoid quadratic loop in filter_refs) > Both in v1.7.11. I think there is still a potential quadratic loop > in mark_complete() > > - 90108a2 (upload-pack: avoid parsing tag destinations) > 926f1dd (upload-pack: avoid parsing objects during ref advertisement) > Both in v1.7.10. Note that tag objects are more expensive to > advertise than commits, because we have to load and peel them. > > Even with those patches, though, I found that it was something like ~2s > to advertise 100,000 refs. FWIW I bisected between 1.7.9 and 1.7.10 and found that the point at which it went from 1.5/s to 2.5/s upload-pack runs on the pathological git.git repository was none of those, but: ccdc6037fe - parse_object: try internal cache before reading object db -- 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