Re: [PATCH] branch: only print upstream relationship with -v -v

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On 3/17/10, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>  > "git branch -v" is unusable for me because it's too slow.
>
> > ...
>
> > This is on a repository with ~30 branches, some are hundreds of
>  > patches behind upstream.
>
>
> Perhaps you have an overeager branch.autosetupmerge configuration?

No. Never heard of it.

>  I dunno.  I seem to have a lot more branches than you do (currently
>  56), but most of them are topics that, once they forked from a
>  particular commit, never merge other random commits, only because they
>  have new commits that are unrelated to the objective of the topic, so
>  most of my branches do not have "upstream" in that sense.

I did sysprof and it seems half the time was spent inside
merge_bases_many(). Being a complete ignorant about merging stuff, I
put "return NULL;" at the beginning of that function, "git branch -v"
now goes down to 2 seconds. Don't know if that could tell anything.
-- 
Duy