Hi, On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > If a project has a very large number of tags then git-describe > will spend a good part of its time looping over the tags testing > them one at a time to determine if it matches a given commit. Why not just use object_refs? This also obviates the need for your patch 3/4, since you no longer have buckets to search binarily. Plus, it uses a hash map, which already turned out to beat (in terms of performance) the hell out of bucketed lists in git history. 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