When updating local refs after the fetch has transferred all objects, we do an object existence test as a safety guard to avoid updating a ref to an object which we don't have. We do so via `oid_object_info()`: if it returns an error, then we know the object does not exist. One side effect of `oid_object_info()` is that it parses the object's type, and to do so it must unpack the object header. This is completely pointless: we don't care for the type, but only want to assert that the object exists. Refactor the code to use `repo_has_object_file()`, which both makes the code's intent clearer and is also faster because it does not unpack object headers. In a real-world repo with 2.3M refs, this results in a small speedup when doing a mirror-fetch: Benchmark #1: HEAD~: git-fetch Time (mean ± σ): 33.686 s ± 0.176 s [User: 30.119 s, System: 5.262 s] Range (min … max): 33.512 s … 33.944 s 5 runs Benchmark #2: HEAD: git-fetch Time (mean ± σ): 31.247 s ± 0.195 s [User: 28.135 s, System: 5.066 s] Range (min … max): 30.948 s … 31.472 s 5 runs Summary 'HEAD: git-fetch' ran 1.08 ± 0.01 times faster than 'HEAD~: git-fetch' Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt --- builtin/fetch.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/fetch.c b/builtin/fetch.c index bd7c0da232..0b18c47732 100644 --- a/builtin/fetch.c +++ b/builtin/fetch.c @@ -846,13 +846,11 @@ static int update_local_ref(struct ref *ref, int summary_width) { struct commit *current = NULL, *updated; - enum object_type type; struct branch *current_branch = branch_get(NULL); const char *pretty_ref = prettify_refname(ref->name); int fast_forward = 0; - type = oid_object_info(the_repository, &ref->new_oid, NULL); - if (type < 0) + if (!repo_has_object_file(the_repository, &ref->new_oid)) die(_("object %s not found"), oid_to_hex(&ref->new_oid)); if (oideq(&ref->old_oid, &ref->new_oid)) { -- 2.33.0