In a similar fashion as in previous commits, teach `ls-refs` to avoid enumerating hidden references where possible. As before, this is linux.git with one hidden reference per commit. $ hyperfine -L v ,.compile 'git{v} -c protocol.version=2 ls-remote .' Benchmark 1: git -c protocol.version=2 ls-remote . Time (mean ± σ): 89.8 ms ± 0.6 ms [User: 84.3 ms, System: 5.7 ms] Range (min … max): 88.8 ms … 91.3 ms 32 runs Benchmark 2: git.compile -c protocol.version=2 ls-remote . Time (mean ± σ): 6.5 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 2.4 ms, System: 4.3 ms] Range (min … max): 6.2 ms … 8.3 ms 397 runs Summary 'git.compile -c protocol.version=2 ls-remote .' ran 13.85 ± 0.33 times faster than 'git -c protocol.version=2 ls-remote .' Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- ls-refs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ls-refs.c b/ls-refs.c index 8c3181d051..c9a723ba89 100644 --- a/ls-refs.c +++ b/ls-refs.c @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ int ls_refs(struct repository *r, struct packet_reader *request) strvec_push(&data.prefixes, ""); refs_for_each_fullref_in_prefixes(get_main_ref_store(r), get_git_namespace(), data.prefixes.v, - NULL, send_ref, &data); + data.hidden_refs.v, send_ref, &data); packet_fflush(stdout); strvec_clear(&data.prefixes); strbuf_release(&data.buf); -- 2.41.0.16.g26cd413590