Re: [StGit RFC] Make "stg branch -l" faster by getting all git config information in one call

On 13/12/2007, David Kågedal [off-list ref] wrote:

I have a fair amount of branches, and I noticed that "stg branch -l"
takes ridiculously long to finish.

I have the same problem.

Maybe someone can help me find a quicker replacement for the
get_protected call?

We can have the standard --list command which ignores the protected
flag or even the stgit.formatversion. Just a simple listing of the
branches (that's what I need most of the time). To get the
description, the 's' and 'p' flags, we could use --list-full or
something similar and wait a bit longer. This would also improve the
bash completion of commands taking branch names as arguments.

We had a similar issue in the past with 'series' as it was checking
whether the patch is empty. We ended up adding a '--empty' option for
this case.

-- 
Catalin