Hi, On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Dmitry V. Levin wrote: > > > git-fetch builtinification (commit v1.5.3.2-93-gb888d61) apparently > > dropped -n option (alias to --no-tags) documented in > > Documentation/fetch-options.txt > > > > Either builtin-fetch.c or Documentation/fetch-options.txt should be > > adjusted to sync the code with its docs. > > > > Original bug report: > > https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14870 > > I have a (very) vague memory that git-fetch.sh had to iterate over tags > one by one, making tag-heavy projects excruciatingly slow to fetch from > with the shellscript version. Some pathological case with 2700 tags was > presented where a fetch took nearly an hour, iirc. AFAIR, the > builtinification (or was it a protocol extension?) reduced that time to > something around 10 seconds for the pathological case. AFAIR this was helped by the fetch--tool helper, even at the time of non-builtin fetch. > Does anyone else have a sharper memory of what caused the -n option to > be dropped? AFAICT this was done because of the parsopt'ification. But I forgot the details. Hth, Dscho -- 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
