On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:22 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:00:23PM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote: > >> lookup_commit_reference_gently unconditionally parses the object given >> to it. This slows down git-describe a lot if you have a repository >> with large tagged blobs in it: parse_object() will read the entire >> blob and verify that its sha1 matches, only to then throw it away. >> >> Speed it up by checking the type with sha1_object_info() prior to >> unpacking. > > This would speed up the case where we do not end up looking at the > object at all, but it will slow down the (presumably common) case where > we will in fact find a commit and end up parsing the object anyway. Perhaps turn "quiet" into a bitmap and only let git-describe do this? -- Duy -- 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