On 31 May 2013 09:46, Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alex Bennée <kernel-hacker@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I think you are right. I was brave (well I assumed the tags would come >> back from the upstream repo) and ran: >> >> git for-each-ref | grep "refs/tags" | grep "commit" | cut -d '/' -f 3 >> | xargs git tag -d > > So that deleted all unannotated tags pointing at commits, and then it > was fast. Curious. > >> However I have some big commits it seems: >> >> 09:37 ajb@sloy/x86_64 [work.git] >(git for-each-ref | grep ' commit' | >> cut -d\ -f1 | xargs -n1 git cat-file commit) | wc -c >> 1147231984 > > How many unique entries are there in that list, i.e., what does > > git for-each-ref | grep ' commit' | cut -d\ -f1 | sort -u | wc -l 09:49 ajb@sloy/x86_64 [work.git] >git for-each-ref | grep ' commit' | cut -d\ -f1 | sort -u | wc -l 1508 > say? Perhaps you can also find the biggest commit, e.g. like so: > > git for-each-ref | grep ' commit' | cut -d\ -f1 | > while read sha; do git cat-file commit $sha | wc -c; done | > sort -n Yeah there is a range from a few hundred bytes to a large number of 3M commits. I guess I need to identify which commits they are and remove the tags or convert them to annotated reference tags. > However, if that turns out to be the culprit, it's not fixable > currently[1]. Having commits with insanely long messages is just, well, > insane. > > > [1] unless we do a major rework of the loading infrastructure, so that > we can teach it to load only the beginning of a commit as long as we are > only interested in parents and such I'll do a bit of scripting to dig into the nature of these uber-commits and try and work out how they cam about. I suspect they are simply start of branch states in our broken and disparate history. I'll get back to you once I've dug a little deeper. > > -- > Thomas Rast > trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch -- 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