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From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
To: "Alex Bennée" <kernel-hacker@bennee.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Poor performance of git describe in big repos
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 12:48:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130530114808.GD17475@serenity.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-05NPQLVFhtb9KMLNLc5MqguBYM1=gKEVrrtT3kSMiZKma_g@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:38:32AM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> One factor might be the size of my repo (.git is around 2.4G). Could
> this just be due to computational cost of searching through large
> packs to walk the commit chain? Is there any way to make this easier
> for git to do?

What does "git count-objects -v" say for your repository?

You may find that performance improves if you repack with "git gc
--aggressive".

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-30 11:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-30 10:38 Poor performance of git describe in big repos Alex Bennée
2013-05-30 11:33 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-30 13:09   ` Alex Bennée
2013-05-30 14:32     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-30 15:01       ` Alex Bennée
2013-05-30 15:17         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-30 15:33     ` Thomas Rast
2013-05-30 16:01       ` Alex Bennée
2013-05-30 16:21         ` Thomas Rast
2013-05-30 16:44           ` Thomas Rast
2013-05-30 19:01             ` Antoine Pelisse
2013-05-30 20:00             ` [PATCH 1/2] sha1_file: silence sha1_loose_object_info Thomas Rast
2013-05-30 20:00               ` [PATCH 2/2] lookup_commit_reference_gently: do not read non-{tag,commit} Thomas Rast
2013-05-30 21:22                 ` Jeff King
2013-05-31  0:52                   ` Duy Nguyen
2013-05-31  8:08                   ` Thomas Rast
2013-05-31 16:00                     ` Jeff King
2013-05-31  6:43                 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-31  8:16                   ` Thomas Rast
2013-05-30 19:30           ` Poor performance of git describe in big repos John Keeping
2013-05-31  8:14             ` Alex Bennée
2013-05-31  8:24               ` Thomas Rast
2013-05-31  8:40                 ` Alex Bennée
2013-05-31  8:46                   ` Thomas Rast
2013-05-31  9:57                     ` Alex Bennée
2013-06-03  8:02                       ` Alex Bennée
2013-06-03 16:32                         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-03 17:48                           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-31 10:27                     ` Thomas Rast
2013-05-31 16:17                       ` Jeff King
2013-06-03  8:39                         ` Alex Bennée
2013-06-03 14:49                           ` Jeff King
2013-05-31  8:32               ` John Keeping
2013-05-31  8:49                 ` Alex Bennée
2013-05-31  8:59                   ` John Keeping
2013-05-30 11:48 ` John Keeping [this message]
2013-05-30 12:29   ` Alex Bennée
2013-05-30 13:20     ` Duy Nguyen
     [not found]       ` <CAJ-05NPacjAEC99Ntd9eMnTD9_PMMYFob-_tAx5CeSB79TkRSg@mail.gmail.com>
2013-05-30 13:45         ` Duy Nguyen
2013-05-30 14:02           ` Alex Bennée
2013-05-30 13:16   ` Alex Bennée

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