On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 08:30:24PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote: > Similar to 16445242 (fetch-pack: avoid quadratic list insertion in > mark_complete), sort only after all refs are collected instead of while > inserting. The result is the same, but it's more efficient that way. > The difference will only be measurable in repositories with a large > number of refs. Thanks, this looks obviously correct. I wonder if we should do this on top: diff --git a/walker.c b/walker.c index 0148264..70088b8 100644 --- a/walker.c +++ b/walker.c @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ static int interpret_target(struct walker *walker, char *target, unsigned char * static int mark_complete(const char *path, const unsigned char *sha1, int flag, void *cb_data) { struct commit *commit = lookup_commit_reference_gently(sha1, 1); - if (commit) { + if (commit && !(commit->object.flags & COMPLETE)) { commit->object.flags |= COMPLETE; commit_list_insert_by_date(commit, &complete); } It's not as big a deal with your patch since you've made it O(n log n), but reducing n further does not hurt. -Peff -- 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