We cannot create an archive from a blob object, so we would not expect anyone to provide one to us. And if they do, we will fail anyway just after the reachability check. We can therefore optimize our reachability check to ignore blobs completely, and not even create a "struct blob" for them. Depending on the repository size and the exact place we find the reachable object in the traversal, this can save 20-25%, a we can avoid many lookups in the object hash. The downside of this is that a blob provided to a remote archive process will fail with "no such object" rather than "object is not a tree" (we could organize the code to retain the old message, but since we no longer know whether the blob is reachable or not, we would potentially be leaking information about the existence of unreachable objects). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- archive.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/archive.c b/archive.c index 4d77624..98691cd 100644 --- a/archive.c +++ b/archive.c @@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ static int object_is_reachable(const unsigned char *sha1) save_commit_buffer = 0; init_revisions(&data.revs, NULL); setup_revisions(ARRAY_SIZE(argv) - 1, argv, &data.revs, NULL); + data.revs.blob_objects = 0; if (prepare_revision_walk(&data.revs)) return 0; -- 1.8.3.rc2.14.g7eee6b3 -- 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