On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 02:44:42PM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > > The fix for this is simple: set core.warnAmbiguousRefs to false for this > > specific call of git pack-objects coming from git send-pack. We don't want > > to default it to false for all calls to git pack-objects, as it is valid to > > pass ref names instead of object ids. This helps regain these seconds during > > a push. > > I don't think you actually care about the ambiguity check between refs > here; you just care about avoiding the ref check when we've seen (and > are mostly expecting) a 40-hex sha1. We have a more specific flag for > that: warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity. > > And I think it would be OK to enable that all the time for pack-objects, > which is plumbing that does typically expect object names. See prior art > in 25fba78d36 (cat-file: disable object/refname ambiguity check for > batch mode, 2013-07-12) and 4c30d50402 (rev-list: disable object/refname > ambiguity check with --stdin, 2014-03-12). I'd probably do it here: diff --git a/builtin/pack-objects.c b/builtin/pack-objects.c index e50c6cd1ff..d370638a5d 100644 --- a/builtin/pack-objects.c +++ b/builtin/pack-objects.c @@ -3104,6 +3104,7 @@ static void get_object_list(int ac, const char **av) struct rev_info revs; char line[1000]; int flags = 0; + int save_warning; repo_init_revisions(the_repository, &revs, NULL); save_commit_buffer = 0; @@ -3112,6 +3113,9 @@ static void get_object_list(int ac, const char **av) /* make sure shallows are read */ is_repository_shallow(the_repository); + save_warning = warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity; + warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity = 0; + while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin) != NULL) { int len = strlen(line); if (len && line[len - 1] == '\n') @@ -3138,6 +3142,8 @@ static void get_object_list(int ac, const char **av) die(_("bad revision '%s'"), line); } + warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity = save_warning; + if (use_bitmap_index && !get_object_list_from_bitmap(&revs)) return; But I'll leave it to you to wrap that up in a patch, since you probably should re-check your timings (which it would be interesting to include in the commit message, if you have reproducible timings). -Peff