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Subject: Re: Performance issue of 'git branch'
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:23:23 -0500
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To: "Carlos R. Mafra" <crmafra2@gmail.com>
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Hi,


On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 01:59:14AM +0200, Carlos R. Mafra wrote:

> I don't know why .git/refs/heads/stern does not exist and why it take=
s
> so long with it. That branch is functional ('git checkout stern' succ=
eeds),
> as well as all the others. But strangely .git/refs/heads/ contains on=
ly
>=20
> [mafra@Pilar:linux-2.6]$ ls .git/refs/heads/
> dev-private  master  sparse
>=20
> which, apart from "master", are the last branches that I created.
>=20
> I occasionally run 'git gc --aggressive --prune" to optimize the repo=
,
> but other than that I don't do anything fancy, just 'pull' almost
> every day and 'bisect' (which is becoming a rare event now :-)
>=20
> So I would like to ask what should I do to recover the missing files
> in .git/refs/heads/ (which apparently is the cause for my issue) and
> how I can avoid losing them in the first place.

have a look at .git/packed-refs and 'git pack-refs'.


Best,
G=E1bor