Re: [PATCH] refs.c: add a function to sort a ref list, rather then sorting on add

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Julian Phillips wrote:

It's the tag auto-following code, I'm calling read_ref to see if I already
have that tag - and it appears that doing that a few thousand times takes a
while.

Heh. I think we should probably call read_refs() just once to read them 
all (when most of them are packed, that's cheap), and then after that, 
have some way to just check for a match on the refs we have cached.

		Linus