fast-export and fast-import can easily handle the simple rewrite that was being done by filter-branch, and should be significantly faster on systems with a slow fork. Timings from before and after on two laptops that I have access to (measured via `time ./t3427-rebase-subtree.sh`, i.e. including everything in this test -- not just the filter-branch or fast-export/fast-import pair): Linux: 4.305s -> 3.684s (~17% speedup) Mac: 10.128s -> 7.038s (~30% speedup) Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> --- t/t3427-rebase-subtree.sh | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/t/t3427-rebase-subtree.sh b/t/t3427-rebase-subtree.sh index d8640522a0..d05fcce5dc 100755 --- a/t/t3427-rebase-subtree.sh +++ b/t/t3427-rebase-subtree.sh @@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ test_expect_failure REBASE_P \ 'Rebase -Xsubtree --preserve-merges --onto commit 4' ' reset_rebase && git checkout -b rebase-preserve-merges-4 master && - git filter-branch --prune-empty -f --subdirectory-filter files_subtree && + git fast-export --no-data HEAD -- files_subtree/ \ + | sed -e "s%\([0-9a-f]\{40\} \)files_subtree/%\1%" \ + | git fast-import --force --quiet && git commit -m "Empty commit" --allow-empty && git rebase -Xsubtree=files_subtree --preserve-merges --onto files-master master && verbose test "$(commit_message HEAD~)" = "files_subtree/master4" @@ -53,7 +55,9 @@ test_expect_failure REBASE_P \ 'Rebase -Xsubtree --preserve-merges --onto commit 5' ' reset_rebase && git checkout -b rebase-preserve-merges-5 master && - git filter-branch --prune-empty -f --subdirectory-filter files_subtree && + git fast-export --no-data HEAD -- files_subtree/ \ + | sed -e "s%\([0-9a-f]\{40\} \)files_subtree/%\1%" \ + | git fast-import --force --quiet && git commit -m "Empty commit" --allow-empty && git rebase -Xsubtree=files_subtree --preserve-merges --onto files-master master && verbose test "$(commit_message HEAD)" = "files_subtree/master5" @@ -64,7 +68,9 @@ test_expect_failure REBASE_P \ 'Rebase -Xsubtree --keep-empty --preserve-merges --onto commit 4' ' reset_rebase && git checkout -b rebase-keep-empty-4 master && - git filter-branch --prune-empty -f --subdirectory-filter files_subtree && + git fast-export --no-data HEAD -- files_subtree/ \ + | sed -e "s%\([0-9a-f]\{40\} \)files_subtree/%\1%" \ + | git fast-import --force --quiet && git commit -m "Empty commit" --allow-empty && git rebase -Xsubtree=files_subtree --keep-empty --preserve-merges --onto files-master master && verbose test "$(commit_message HEAD~2)" = "files_subtree/master4" @@ -75,7 +81,9 @@ test_expect_failure REBASE_P \ 'Rebase -Xsubtree --keep-empty --preserve-merges --onto commit 5' ' reset_rebase && git checkout -b rebase-keep-empty-5 master && - git filter-branch --prune-empty -f --subdirectory-filter files_subtree && + git fast-export --no-data HEAD -- files_subtree/ \ + | sed -e "s%\([0-9a-f]\{40\} \)files_subtree/%\1%" \ + | git fast-import --force --quiet && git commit -m "Empty commit" --allow-empty && git rebase -Xsubtree=files_subtree --keep-empty --preserve-merges --onto files-master master && verbose test "$(commit_message HEAD~)" = "files_subtree/master5" @@ -86,7 +94,9 @@ test_expect_failure REBASE_P \ 'Rebase -Xsubtree --keep-empty --preserve-merges --onto empty commit' ' reset_rebase && git checkout -b rebase-keep-empty-empty master && - git filter-branch --prune-empty -f --subdirectory-filter files_subtree && + git fast-export --no-data HEAD -- files_subtree/ \ + | sed -e "s%\([0-9a-f]\{40\} \)files_subtree/%\1%" \ + | git fast-import --force --quiet && git commit -m "Empty commit" --allow-empty && git rebase -Xsubtree=files_subtree --keep-empty --preserve-merges --onto files-master master && verbose test "$(commit_message HEAD)" = "Empty commit" @@ -96,7 +106,9 @@ test_expect_failure REBASE_P \ test_expect_failure 'Rebase -Xsubtree --onto commit 4' ' reset_rebase && git checkout -b rebase-onto-4 master && - git filter-branch --prune-empty -f --subdirectory-filter files_subtree && + git fast-export --no-data HEAD -- files_subtree/ \ + | sed -e "s%\([0-9a-f]\{40\} \)files_subtree/%\1%" \ + | git fast-import --force --quiet && git commit -m "Empty commit" --allow-empty && git rebase -Xsubtree=files_subtree --onto files-master master && verbose test "$(commit_message HEAD~2)" = "files_subtree/master4" @@ -106,7 +118,9 @@ test_expect_failure 'Rebase -Xsubtree --onto commit 4' ' test_expect_failure 'Rebase -Xsubtree --onto commit 5' ' reset_rebase && git checkout -b rebase-onto-5 master && - git filter-branch --prune-empty -f --subdirectory-filter files_subtree && + git fast-export --no-data HEAD -- files_subtree/ \ + | sed -e "s%\([0-9a-f]\{40\} \)files_subtree/%\1%" \ + | git fast-import --force --quiet && git commit -m "Empty commit" --allow-empty && git rebase -Xsubtree=files_subtree --onto files-master master && verbose test "$(commit_message HEAD~)" = "files_subtree/master5" @@ -115,7 +129,9 @@ test_expect_failure 'Rebase -Xsubtree --onto commit 5' ' test_expect_failure 'Rebase -Xsubtree --onto empty commit' ' reset_rebase && git checkout -b rebase-onto-empty master && - git filter-branch --prune-empty -f --subdirectory-filter files_subtree && + git fast-export --no-data HEAD -- files_subtree/ \ + | sed -e "s%\([0-9a-f]\{40\} \)files_subtree/%\1%" \ + | git fast-import --force --quiet && git commit -m "Empty commit" --allow-empty && git rebase -Xsubtree=files_subtree --onto files-master master && verbose test "$(commit_message HEAD)" = "Empty commit" -- 2.23.0.5.g775ebaa2a0