With many thousands of references, a simple `git rev-parse HEAD` may take more than a second to return because it first loads all the refs into memory even though it will never use them. Defer loading any references until we actually need them. Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <phil.hord@xxxxxxxxx> --- log-tree.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/log-tree.c b/log-tree.c index 3b904f037..c1509f8b9 100644 --- a/log-tree.c +++ b/log-tree.c @@ -84,8 +84,10 @@ void add_name_decoration(enum decoration_type type, const char *name, struct obj res->next = add_decoration(&name_decoration, obj, res); } +static void maybe_load_ref_decorations(); const struct name_decoration *get_name_decoration(const struct object *obj) { + maybe_load_ref_decorations(); return lookup_decoration(&name_decoration, obj); } @@ -150,10 +152,13 @@ static int add_graft_decoration(const struct commit_graft *graft, void *cb_data) void load_ref_decorations(int flags) { - if (!decoration_loaded) { + decoration_flags = flags; +} +static void maybe_load_ref_decorations() +{ + if (!decoration_loaded) { decoration_loaded = 1; - decoration_flags = flags; for_each_ref(add_ref_decoration, NULL); head_ref(add_ref_decoration, NULL); for_each_commit_graft(add_graft_decoration, NULL); -- 2.15.0.471.g17a719cfe.dirty