An example where this happens is when doing an ls-tree on a tree that contains a commit link. In that case, find_unique_abbrev is called to get a non-abbreviated hex sha1, but still, a lookup is done as to whether the sha1 is in the repository (which ends up looking for a loose object in .git/objects), while the result of that lookup is not used when returning a non-abbreviated hex sha1. Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sha1_name.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) This hit me on a corner case, where I kind of abuse commit links and have a tree with tens of thousands of them. Without the patch: $ time git ls-tree -r HEAD | wc -l 114987 real 0m4.412s user 0m1.980s sys 0m2.480s With the patch: $ time git ls-tree -r HEAD | wc -l 114987 real 0m0.205s user 0m0.196s sys 0m0.012s diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c index 5b004f5..cb88170 100644 --- a/sha1_name.c +++ b/sha1_name.c @@ -372,10 +372,10 @@ const char *find_unique_abbrev(const unsigned char *sha1, int len) int status, exists; static char hex[41]; - exists = has_sha1_file(sha1); memcpy(hex, sha1_to_hex(sha1), 40); if (len == 40 || !len) return hex; + exists = has_sha1_file(sha1); while (len < 40) { unsigned char sha1_ret[20]; status = get_short_sha1(hex, len, sha1_ret, GET_SHA1_QUIETLY); -- 2.1.1 -- 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