On 10/10/07, Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm seeing very slow performance with 'git-branch'. Is this the > canonical way to find out the current branch? You could also try 'git symbolic-ref HEAD', but see below... > hanwen@lilypond:/tmp/z$ find .git/refs/remotes | wc -l > 1856 You probably want to run 'git gc' (which will run 'git pack-refs', i.e. put all files currently under .git/refs into a single file). This should speed up 'git branch' (and quite possibly other commands too). -- larsh - 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