On Tuesday, July 02, 2013 03:24:14 am Michael Haggerty wrote: > > git rev-list HEAD | for nn in $(seq 0 100) ; do for c > > in $(seq 0 10000) ; do read sha ; echo $sha > > refs/c/$nn/$c$nn ; done ; done > .git/packed-refs > > I believe this generates a packed-refs file that is not > sorted lexicographically by refname, whereas all > Git-generated packed-refs files are sorted. Yes, you are indeed correct. I was attempting to be too clever with my sharding I guess. Thanks. > There are > some optimizations in refs.c for adding references in > order that might therefore be circumvented by your > unsorted file. Please try sorting the file by refname > and see if that helps. (You can do so by deleting one > of the packed references; then git will sort the > remainder while rewriting the file.) A simple git pack-refs seems to clean it up. The original test did complete in ~77mins last night. A rerun with a sorted file takes ~61mins, -Martin PS: This test was performed with git version 1.8.2.1 on linux 2.6.32-37-generic #81-Ubuntu SMP -- The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- 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