When pack-objects collects the list of objects to pack (either from stdin, or via its internal rev-list), it filters each one through want_object_in_pack(). This function loops through each existing packfile, looking for the object. When we find it, we mark the pack/offset combo for later use. However, we can't just return "yes, we want it" at that point. If --honor-pack-keep is in effect, we must keep looking to find it in _all_ packs, to make sure none of them has a .keep. Likewise, if --local is in effect, we must make sure it is not present in any non-local pack. As a result, the sum effort of these calls is effectively O(nr_objects * nr_packs). In an ordinary repository, we have only a handful of packs, and this doesn't make a big difference. But in pathological cases, it can slow the counting phase to a crawl. This patch notices the case that we have neither "--local" nor "--honor-pack-keep" in effect and breaks out of the loop early, after finding the first instance. Note that our worst case is still "objects * packs" (i.e., we might find each object in the last pack we look in), but in practice we will often break out early. On an "average" repo, my git.git with 8 packs, this shows a modest 2% (a few dozen milliseconds) improvement in the counting-objects phase of "git pack-objects --all <foo" (hackily instrumented by sticking exit(0) right after list_objects). But in a much more pathological case, it makes a bigger difference. I ran the same command on a real-world example with ~9 million objects across 1300 packs. The counting time dropped from 413s to 45s, an improvement of about 89%. Note that this patch won't do anything by itself for a normal "git gc", as it uses both --honor-pack-keep and --local. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- Same as earlier, though I took the re-ordering and comment from Junio that came out of the earlier discussion. builtin/pack-objects.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/builtin/pack-objects.c b/builtin/pack-objects.c index a2f8cfd..8ad11f2 100644 --- a/builtin/pack-objects.c +++ b/builtin/pack-objects.c @@ -977,6 +977,22 @@ static int want_object_in_pack(const unsigned char *sha1, return 1; if (incremental) return 0; + + /* + * When asked to do --local (do not include an + * object that appears in a pack we borrow + * from elsewhere) or --honor-pack-keep (do not + * include an object that appears in a pack marked + * with .keep), we need to make sure no copy of this + * object come from in _any_ pack that causes us to + * omit it, and need to complete this loop. When + * neither option is in effect, we know the object + * we just found is going to be packed, so break + * out of the loop to return 1 now. + */ + if (!ignore_packed_keep && !local) + break; + if (local && !p->pack_local) return 0; if (ignore_packed_keep && p->pack_local && p->pack_keep) -- 2.9.2.607.g98dce7b -- 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