From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: demerphq Subject: Re: Performance issue of 'git branch' Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:23:33 +0200 Message-ID: <9b18b3110907260323h575a0b06rcf058c8b3370b742@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090723195548.GA28494@Pilar.aei.mpg.de> <20090724234648.GA4616@Pilar.aei.mpg.de> <20090725004122.GA28477@Pilar.aei.mpg.de> <20090725215739.d074e947.tihirvon@gmail.com> <20090725203130.GB1640@glandium.org> <20090726075455.GA22525@glandium.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Mike Hommey , Linus Torvalds , Timo Hirvonen , git@vger.kernel.org, "Carlos R. Mafra" , Junio C Hamano To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jul 26 12:27:41 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MV0xA-0008WG-LQ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:27:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753380AbZGZKXf convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:23:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753352AbZGZKXf (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:23:35 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.242]:34074 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752742AbZGZKXe convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:23:34 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so3564653and.1 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:23:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=1d+b39uHtsr84zpQAlgC+6cIW9djEITXiB+eWFksCO0=; b=ZAtVnHhlo/MrDFx3rS9NEKCtJz5oOeVcrHbr+KdHKKIPbWXaLYukGJ19GE/pcgvGQm PlO8XgTIb5ITM/3l4knDH0gqBO2/1Enkff/96SfxKsnJVwaj5Yn+8PronbwZIcCbiGG7 M6inNyuwplujbJTKu+jhvUVrvt/l3ShSJxxVY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Ke1yG2em+NowhkomHenp6+OqM3TdYu9J4UCjRWhfwJ5tTU8RDk+8vevjZwAKrZoUlg pcr05NeV1evXLZnSN1wqowhglzFUTNKKc3NFG9k5YFSKwExkO8bojyjlUvRcdk94eRQy s68VUbtY1GC05/PWMIbvt/JyuixP8/gcvnuec= Received: by 10.231.18.69 with SMTP id v5mr1789960iba.26.1248603813944; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:23:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2009/7/26 Johannes Schindelin : > Hi, > > On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Mike Hommey wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 02:02:19PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Mike Hommey wrote: >> > >> > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:57:39PM +0300, Timo Hirvonen wrote: >> > > > Linus Torvalds wrote: >> > > > >> > > > > So curl really must die. It may not matter for the expensive= operations, >> > > > > but a lot of scripting is about running all those "cheap" th= ings that just >> > > > > add up over time. >> > > > >> > > > SELinux is the problem, not curl. >> > > >> > > I think it's NSS, the problem, not SELinux. Linus's libcurl is b= uilt >> > > against NSS, which is the default on Fedora. >> > >> > Well, it kind of doesn't matter. The fact is, libcurl is a bloated >> > monster, and adds zero to 99% of what git people do. >> >> Especially consideting the http transport fails to be useful in vari= ous >> scenarios. > > I beg your pardon? =A0Maybe "s/useful/desirable/"? > > In many scenarios, http transport is the _last resort_ against overze= alous > administrators. =A0The fact that you might be lucky enough not to nee= d that > resort is a blessing, and does not give you the right to ridicule tho= se > who are unfortunate enough not to share your good luck. I think he meant that it is buggy and does not work correctly in various scenarios. Eg: Last I checked it couldn't handle repos where the main branch wasn''t called master, and I've seen other messages that make me think it doesn't work correctly on edge cases. cheers, Yves --=20 perl -Mre=3Ddebug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"