On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 01:40:08PM +0100, Christian Schilling wrote: > Hi list, > I have been working on a custom git server where the sha values > required to respond to a ls-refs command can occasionally be expensive > to compute. Almost certainly the expensive part of ls-refs is actually traversing the references, not parsing the objects they point at and determining their hash. Incidentally, we had a discussion recently [1] that resulted in some patches that make it so that ls-refs often only has to read through part of the refs in your repository, not all of them. > It would be a great improvement of user experience if it was possible > to show progress to the user while this is happening. It's possible that that might help, but honestly I'd be surprised if there was a real use-case that needed it (especially after the patches that I mentioned which should make it fast enough that you don't have to care :-)). Thanks, Taylor [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20210119144251.27924-1-jacob@xxxxxxxxxx/
