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From: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Subject: Re: Git is not scalable with too many refs/*
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:59:20 +0200
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Am 09.09.2011 02:52, schrieb Martin Fick:
> An update, I bisected it down to this commit:
> 
>   88a21979c5717e3f37b9691e90b6dbf2b94c751a
> 
>    fetch/pull: recurse into submodules when necessary
> 
> Since this can be disabled with the --no-recurse-submodules switch, I tried
> that and indeed, even with the latest 1.7.7rc it becomes fast (~8mins)
> again. The strange part about this is that the repository does not have any
> submodules. Anyway, I hope that this can be useful to others since it is a
> workaround which speed things up enormously. Let me know if you have any
> other tests that you want me to perform,

Thanks for nailing that one down. I'm currently looking into bringing back
decent performance here.