The updated git fetch in pu is vastly improved on repositories with very large numbers of refs. The time taken for a no-op fetch over ~9000 refs drops from ~48m to ~0.5m. However, before git fetch will actually run on a repository with ~9000 refs the calling interface between fetch and fetch--tool needs to be changed. The existing version passes the entire reflist on the command line, which means that it is subject to the maxiumum environment size passed to a child process by execve. The following patches add a stdin based interface to fetch--tool allowing the ~9000 refs to be passed without exceeding the environment limit. -- Julian - 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