On 10/10/07, Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2007/10/10, Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > 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). > > > > This seems rather unuseful. After running gc pack-refs --all, I lost my HEAD, > > > > hanwen@lilypond:~/vc/git5$ git show HEAD > > fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the > > working tree. > > More to the point, I seemed to have lost my entire repository. This is > the type of surprise I don't enjoy. Yeah, this is bad, I'm sorry to have caused you trouble. But I fail to see how 'git pack-refs --all' could possibly trash your repository. A few questions: What version of git are you using? What's the output from these commands: $ cat .git/packed-refs $ cat .git/HEAD $ find .git/refs -type f | wc -l > Now, can someone explain why 'git branch' takes forever if there are > only two non-remote branches ? That's because git-branch always traverses the complete directory tree below .git/refs, even if you only want to see the 'local' branches (I have a patch cooking to fix this). -- 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
