> You may find that performance improves if you repack with "git gc --aggressive". It seems that increases the time to get to where it wants to: 14:12 ajb@sloy/x86_64 [work.git] >time /usr/bin/git --no-pager describe --long --tags --debug searching to describe HEAD lightweight 10 ajb-build-test-5224 lightweight 41 ajb-build-test-5222 annotated 146 vnms-2-1-36-32 annotated 155 vnms-2-1-36-31 annotated 174 vnms-2-1-36-30 annotated 183 vnms-2-1-36-29 lightweight 188 vnms-2-1-36-28 annotated 193 vnms-2-1-36-27 annotated 206 vnms-2-1-36-26 annotated 215 vectastar-4-2-83-5 traversed 223 commits more than 10 tags found; listed 10 most recent gave up search at 2b69df72d47be8440e3ce4cee91b9b7ceaf8b77c ajb-build-test-5224-10-gfa296e6 real 0m14.658s user 0m12.845s sys 0m1.776s On 30 May 2013 12:48, John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:38:32AM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote: >> One factor might be the size of my repo (.git is around 2.4G). Could >> this just be due to computational cost of searching through large >> packs to walk the commit chain? Is there any way to make this easier >> for git to do? > > What does "git count-objects -v" say for your repository? > > You may find that performance improves if you repack with "git gc > --aggressive". -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ -- 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