Re: Slow fetches of tags

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Wed, 24 May 2006, Ralf Baechle wrote:
>
> I have a fairly large git tree (with a 320MB pack file containing some
> 700,000 objects).  A small fetch like
> 
>   git fetch git://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/\
>        linux-2.6.16.y.git master:v2.6.16-stable
> 
> which only fetches a handful of objects (v2.6.16.17 -> v2.6.16.18) will
> take on the order of 4-5 minutes.  Adding the "-n" option is will bring
> the operation down to under a second, so it really is just the tags
> that are slowing things down so much..

So this is a tree where you already _have_ most of the tags, no?

Can you add a printout to show what the "taglist" is for you in 
git-fetch.sh (just before the thing that does that

	fetch_main "$taglist"

thing?). It _should_ have pruned out all the tags you already have.

Or is it just the "git-ls-remote" that takes forever? (Or, if you run 
"top", is there something that is an obviously heavy operation on the 
client side?)

		Linus