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From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Subject: Re: Poor performance of git describe in big repos
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 12:48:08 +0100
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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:38:32AM +0100, Alex Benn=E9e 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".