Don't put clean parents on the pending list, as they and their ancestors don't need any treatment and would be skipped later anyway. This saves the allocation and release of a commit list item in ca. 20% of the cases during a run of the test suite. Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> --- commit.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c index 572301b80a..d00780bee5 100644 --- a/commit.c +++ b/commit.c @@ -701,8 +701,10 @@ static void clear_commit_marks_1(struct commit_list **plist, if (!parents) return; - while ((parents = parents->next)) - commit_list_insert(parents->item, plist); + while ((parents = parents->next)) { + if (parents->item->object.flags & mark) + commit_list_insert(parents->item, plist); + } commit = commit->parents->item; } -- 2.38.2